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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 aristarchus on Tuesday October 09 2018, @06:15AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @06:15AM (#746311) Journal

    Good journal. One or two things, however. I cannot take Gaaark seriously until he spells his user name correctly: "Garaque", which has the advantage of vaguely resembling a Deep Space Nine character, and learns to spell "spiel". Do these two things, and we are good.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @06:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @06:56AM (#746315)

    > learns to spell "spiel"

    What you don't know is that Gaark actually misspelled "spell". Because you'd need to be a fucking wizard to make people realize the problem.

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 10 2018, @04:37PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 10 2018, @04:37PM (#747014) Journal

    When aristarchus gets a son who was awake until 4am 3 nights in a row, and so uses an unresponsive spell-checker to check his spelling, he will have stepped into my shoes and will know what it is like to not know how to spell while being pretty much punch drunk.

    Usually, my spelling is impeccable, thanks.

    But thank you for commenting, Aristarchus! :)
    You get two Tribbles today!

    Finally getting some sleep and should be back on here more, again.

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