Equifax should be scary enough, now imagine all your intimate and personal data available to anyone if any of those sites got hacked.
Ask HN: I'm not motivated enough to take privacy seriously
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Re: Ask HN: I'm not motivated enough to take privacy seriously
#12Have you downloaded the data that Facebook and Google have on you?
I've heard of people doing this and realizing that they have information that you wouldn't think they would have.
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#13i cant, others have tried to convince me and i know how to do security very well, ive set up many a system for friends who are the sort of people who put tape over their cameras (why do you do this people? an image of your gormless mug staring at a screen is no use to anyone, if you want to do something more useful disable or remove your microphone)
even if anyone had all my info they couldnt really do much with it, im not creditworthy in any way, i own pretty much nothing and i have no enemies or any reason for anyone to try and destroy me somehow.
personally im more than happy to have people collect data on my boring little life in exchange for free services online etc so like you i really dont see a way it could negatively affect me
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#15Real time pricing and personalized pricing. The more marketers learn about you, the more they will be able to set custom prices for you that may not be in your benefit. Think airline tickets, that's the model people are after.
What if I told you that in 10 minutes you could get most of the way to great privacy without leaving Google services or social networks at all? Also your pages will load faster, you will be paywalled less often, and you will see a security benefit.
1. Browser containerization, use one browser for browsing normally and never sign into accounts, use the other for only signing into accounts, no normal browsing
2. Install Ublock origin and privacy badger extensions
3. Get a VPN (ok, this takes more like 10 minutes by itself) and use it
4. Only browse in incognito mode and set your browser to delete history
5. Make firefox and brave your browsers and turn on their default privacy features
6. Continue to chat on social networks and Google but use their encrypted products (Allo incognito, WhatsApp, FB's thing etc)
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#16The thing is, it probably won't affect your life. There's millions of people willingly giving up their information to the internet, and it's not like every single one of them, or even a majority, will face any consequences. But what if you suddenly decided to change the world and become a politician? Well, I sure hope you never directly googled for some particular genre of pornography, specially if it's something tha…
Absolutely this. Also, it only matters if you ever make it in life.
Re: Ask HN: I'm not motivated enough to take privacy seriously
#17Let's say you're a liberal, you hate Trump and everything he stands for as well as the Republican party. You post a lot of anti-Trump and anti-Republican content on social media and discuss it even more candidly with friends through IMs and email.
The mid-terms come and it turns out that Russia has perfected their hacking of our voting machines to the point that even when analyzing the data, it can't be proven. Republicans maintain control and therefore Trump as well. Congrats, you not live in a completely fascist state!
Whatever reigns were left holding Trump back are now gone as well as any kind of checks and balance braking system. Trump leverages NSA data and powers to root out and purge any liberals in federal agencies and replaces them with alt-right Republicans. The justice department becomes the revenge department. Laws are passed giving the government complete access to all private company data (as if they don't already have it).
Trump can now leverage the full power of the deathstar. i.e. full access to the data, tools and power of the NSA, FBI, CIA, ICE, ETC... It's just a matter of time before one particularly enterprising alt-right official run the "SELECT * from citizens WHERE has_criticized_trump = true;" query. Congrats, you're now a political prisoner! I hope they treat you better than ICE treats immigrant children!
Re: Ask HN: I'm not motivated enough to take privacy seriously
#18Ads are evil.
The term 'brand' was borrowed from the cattle industry, where they take a red hot piece of metal and burn an image permanently into a cow.
It's the purpose nearly all advertising serves - to establish a brand. That means they've permanently burned an image into your mind by constantly bombarding you with it.
I consider it a form of assault.
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#19Equifax should be scary enough, now imagine all your intimate and personal data available to anyone if any of those sites got hacked.
now imagine all your intimate and personal data available to anyone if any of those sites got hacked.
Or sold to the highest bidder. Google seems especially anxious to really screw their users those days. Just imagine the money that can be made by selling your most intimate details to insurers.
Re: Ask HN: I'm not motivated enough to take privacy seriously
#20I don't care about your privacy enough to convince you. Just click agree on everything and don't be surprised when your pics, texts or name ends up in laxative ad, condom ad, whatever else ad.
Oh atomicnumber1 just cured this latest STD, only if he would use our gummy friends he would not have to spend 200$ on antibiotics.
Even though you just clicked some link to read article about STDs and never had intercourse.