Comment by donatj
7 years ago
What I think so many privacy advocates don’t realize while frothing at the mouth is that odds are 99.9999% no one really wants your old photos or data specifically. Surely in large aggregate, but on a macro level you are no more interesting than anyone else. You’re not. You have a delusion of grandeur.
Sure, you might get some targeted ads by data used in aggregate and put you into a group but so what? If I had to see ads, I’d rather them be things I am interested in.
Ah the old nothing to fear argument.
Oh, there’s plenty to fear, this just isn’t it.
The proliferation of cameras and cellphone tracking hooked to state owned machine learning predicting your decisions - which is publicly happening in China and almost certainly quietly happening everywhere else? Terrifying.
Data collection on crap that’s nearly public anyway? Merely a distraction.