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I don't think this works, because any sexual stuff they don't think google / Mega Corp cares about. Which is true google doesn't give a shit if you have sex without curtains, they only care if you are shopping for curtains.
And the rest of the questions only matter if you are running for office or something which again 99.9% aren't, so they don't give a shit.
I'm all for privacy, but the argument I have nothing to hide except bank account passwords etc is hard to argue with, when it comes to the average person, because the truth is that they don't matter and most likely no-one cares about their specific data.
Most data is only valuable in mass, unless you're being criminally investigated or something.
I think we're talking about an abstract concept here. The example with the sex questions is more of a metaphor/image to make you remember there is stuff out there, we'd like to keep private. It's not necessarily your main concern regarding google. Those are different things but way less graphic and more difficult to explain, so i went with this example instead.
You're close to the category of people i described last. You don't care for freedom. You don't care your attention is guided by other people. Information that is shown to you is gated by algorithms. And their power to manipulate you comes from the knowledge they have about you.
Au contraire. Companies pay big money for data. The more specific, the more valuable. The biggest companies of today, like amazon, google, twitter, meta... Their business model is to collect data about you, sell advertisements, maybe even sell the data they've collected about you. And all of that is worth billions and billions of dollars. Why do you think they let you use TikTok or YouTube or something for free and the comany still makes millions? You're right. That's the cumulative sum. Your own data maybe is only worth 15$ to some company. Maybe more to some hacker if your credit card info gets leaked, too. But it doesn't make it any better if you're not the only one who gets exploited, but you're part of an exploited majority... The TikTok algorithm, the ads etc are specifically tailored to your personality. To influence specifically your attention.
And what do you even tell the few people who actually suffer consequences? Like, i read stories about women being stalked with the help of social media. Sometimes even police officers using their computers to stalk ex partners. Their data gets collected in mass. And stored for legitimate reasons... Do you tell them: Bad luck you're being stalked by some scummy person? We the 99.9% of people don't have this specific problem?
I care a lot about freedom and my personal privacy. The data collected by apps doesn't invade my privacy, and cannot reliably be used to harm me in any way, so I don't care.
Do you care that you're on video at the bank? Same thing.
"the data collected by apps..... Cannot reliably be used to harm me"
So you're saying that someone can't use your location, recordings of your audible surroundings, recordings of your devices camera view, and whom you may be interacting with cannot be used to harm you?
Correct.