Thread: Just discovered a breach of security with google
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2013-07-16 , 14:06
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#27
Originally Posted by TheoX View Post
The second point of view I would like you to think about is this: Ok, you have the right to hide every personal information you want, and you hide it maybe from some of your friends (who can maybe use that against you), from your family (which can spoil a surprise), from your girlfriend (which can show her that you were cheating - i'm joking of course). So in addition, you hide info from the circle of friends around you. Now, CIA gets all that data, and a unknown agent from USA reads it, he don't know you, you have no relation with him/her, so why even bother caring that an unknown person can see what you are using your internet for. You are not a corrupt politician, you are not part of the mafia, you are nothing to be a headline for the CIA to track you in particular, you are just a user, one user out of several millions that get trough those CIA filters... So WHY EVEN CARE?
Do you happen to have curtains in your house? If so, why do you care that strangers can look inside and see all the activities you're doing in there? You're not a corrupt politician, you are not part of the mafia, ..

Well, I for one just don't want anybody to peak inside.

Furthermore, you don't know how the data collected about you online will be distributed, processed (correlated, passed through models etc.) and used, whether that might be in the present or in the future. I am simply not comfortable with people tracking & profiling me, you will never know what might come out of it, when and by who. It's pretty scary how easily you can discover or generate new, interesting data from a big pile of seemingly non-interesting data. And remember: storage and computing power is cheap these days.

So don't just give out a free pass to track you when you got "nothing to hide", especially to strangers. Not knowing what one will do with your seemingly non-interesting data should be enough reason to not give it away. That's at least why I care.
 

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