Privacy -- is it really anything to be paranoid about? What is

they can let everybody know you like weird porn.

>>58863241
I'm not a citizen of the burgers and I choose not to give away my privacy to the burgerland.

Simple. FUCK burgers.

>>58863241
>What can they do to me besides sell my data?
You might not be doing anything wrong now, but a change of government means that that perfectly legal things you did today are illegal tomorrow.

>>58863241
Give an inch, they will take away 5inches, then later the whole world.

It keeps people in check. Because let's face it...How many people here had the mantality of doing something over and over again until you tell yourself "fuck it, no one said shit to me yet, so I'm gonna keep doing it and see what else I can get away with."

>>58863241

If someone runs up $50,000 in charges in your name, do you want to have to pay that debt? Go through all the court cases and expenses to clear that debt?

It happens today to hundreds of people every month. It takes years to clear it, and your credit history can remain fucked for many more years.

How about someone commits fraud against government benefits in your name? You really want to spend the next decade of your life clearing your name? Only to find out when your' 65 that you are ineligible for Social Security & Medicaid because some paperwork didn't get cleared 40 years ago?

That shit happens today.

People get declared dead, show up in person with DNA evidence and long form birth certificates and can't get shit straightened out. There are people who go through this shit for years, and die during the process because they are denied access.

Ever watch the movie Brazil? It's a fucking documentary, not fiction.

Now, how much of your personal and private information do you want corporations and hackers to get their hands on and use as they please?

You are responsible for your own security. Nobody else has half a fuck to give about your personal pain.

Large scale surveillance/datamining, be it governmental or corporate, is bad because you;
- Can't be certain the company in question runs a tight, intrusion proof ship.
- Can't be sure who they are dealing with in terms of third party data access.
- Can't control who the data goes to and under what conditions if the company folds and the administrators start selling off their data assets to the highest bidder.
- Can't be certain that a legislation or governmental change will not convert that data set from an innocent online behavioral assessment to a tool to find and target perceived "enemies of the state"

You are a person, not a dollar sign anon.

>>58863241
The government can legally abduct US citizens and hold them prisoner indefinitely without a trial. I think no further explanation is needed as to why privacy is essential. Things are almost as bad as in George Orwell's 1984.

>>58863241
https://journal.standardnotes.org/privacy-is-power-f0a064ab36ea#.jllmgqfqk