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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: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:49AM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:49AM (#746266) Homepage Journal

    There are over three million square miles in the lower forty-eight. Why would you ever need to cross a border?

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:56AM (4 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:56AM (#746289)

    I think you only need to get within 100 miles of it these days.