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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:35AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:35AM (#746300)

    Privacy is important. When you grow up, you can have privacy. Until then, your parents have authority over you, and that is just how it goes. Privacy is for adults.

    Just in case you were referring to the workers: That is the job performance of a government worker with unusual power to influence children. We damn well should keep an eye on them. They can have privacy when they go home, or even when they eat lunch. It's like cameras on cops. Also, live classroom video is great for kids that are sick at home.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @03:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @03:00AM (#746787)

    Parents don't (and shouldn't) have unlimited authority over children. I'm glad Facebook didn't exist when I was a child, because if it had, my privacy may have been violated from the very moment I was born. Most of these disservices that collect massive amounts of data about people should be illegal anyway.