I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data.

But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they “have nothing to hide”, and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else.

So, why should people worry about data privacy even if they have “nothing to hide”?

  • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I bring this up. We are installing the mechanisms for which some crazy future totalitarian government can exercise absolute control over the population.

    With the technology we have today, we can make 1984 a reality. In fact, Orwell would be surprised at just how effective we could be. We’re even working on the mind reading at this point.