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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: 2) by Arik on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:19AM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:19AM (#746294) Journal
    I can't do it, I come apart pretty quickly trying to cope with a human being who doesn't grasp this. I wind up wondering how they ever learned to tie their own shoes and ending the conversation as quickly as possible.
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