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submitted 3 months ago by frengo_@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

My brother seems to not care about his online privacy. He registers to services too easily without pondering, he’s not outraged we need a fucking account to use a vacuum cleaner, it seems he doesn’t care about all the potential risks of having videos of our indoors saved in a cloud. I don’t have strong arguments to convince him that privacy matters other than “if someone gets that, you could be in trouble” and “it’s like having someone watching you h24” and so on. How can i persuade him?

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Of course he keeps his credit card number and such private. So he cares about privacy.

What you are talking about is related to privacy, but about others' actions. How can companies and governments abuse us by spying on us? That is where we see interesting things. If I wanna fix my car with a $50 part but it's off brand so I gotta pay $500 instead, that's not cool. If McDonald's charges me more for a Big Mac right after pay day, that's messed up. If the grocery store charges more for a box of eggs because their ID system knows the customer is poor, that's messed up. And this is the present and future. These examples are all about privacy, control, and equality.

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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