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How to explain why privacy is important?

Journal by Gaaark

My daughter was telling me about an app that day-cares and schools use to send photos of kids to 'helicopter' and panic parents and I tried explaining why that was a security issue:

How do you explain to people who don't realise the problem that there IS a problem.

I've tried using the Jewish registration at the Nazi police stations (what, 1939ish?).
I've tried hacker data stealing.
Data collection of kids through adulthood.....

What is a good argument to use against "App! Facebook! Wow! If you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about"?

Anyone got a good speal?

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by https on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:26AM

    by https (5248) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:26AM (#746259) Journal

    A. Twenty years ago, it was normal for daycare runners to smoke at work. "Wrong" is extremely unfixed across both time and different cross-sections of the population. You are guaranteed to be offending someone right now, if only they knew.

    B. Posting real-time updates of your kids is a pedophilic kidnapper's wet dream, also your maniac ex-husband who lost custody for good reason. Are you really willing to compromise the long-term safety of your children just because you want to take less Xanax? You are taking your Xanax, aren't you?

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