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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: 5, Informative) by mrpg on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:42AM (2 children)

    by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <reversethis-{gro ... yos} {ta} {gprm}> on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:42AM (#746264) Homepage

    "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" Some clever answers: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me." "Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition." "Because you might do something wrong with my information."

    https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/value-privacy [aclu.org]

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @08:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @08:49AM (#746338)

    Because the government ACLU gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition.

    How the mighty have fallen. [thefederalist.com]

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 10 2018, @04:31PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 10 2018, @04:31PM (#747009) Journal

    Nice....

    i also like TMB's masturbation comment: i'll have to try that one first, lol.

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