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Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by Clo_S »

wnd_pn wrote: post #37

I totally agree with you. Unfortunately as of today, people are not putting enough attention on who they give their sensitive information to. Data breaches are increasing in number, billion of accounts are hacked every day (I just discovered one of my side-accounts got hacked through https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ), nevertheless the majority of us is still not protecting its data properly (perhaps the problem relies on…

Oooh yes! The 2nd part of this article is about all the tools I use that help with privacy and security, including ProtonMail and Have I Been Pwned! I will look into Cubbit, thank you

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by zygy »

StavrosK wrote: post #21
Clo_S wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that's something I'd love to do differently. The problem is I don't have the technical skills to build that website myself. As I said in the cookie banner, I disabled all the trackers I could. Unfortunately, Squarespace doesn't let its customers disable all of them, which is extremely annoying.

You may like Quick Site ( https://quicksite.stavros.io/ ), which I made for exactly this purpose.

Nice work, this looks cool!

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by matz1 »

So privacy matters because the information can be used against you. That is reasonable but hiding information is not the only the way to fix the issue.

Knife can be used to harm people, sure you can fix it by banning/destroying knife but thats not the only way to fix the issue.

I'm more interested to solution where we assume the information will be public and fix the issue that arise due to that.

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by StavrosK »

Clo_S wrote: post #26
StavrosK wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may like Quick Site ( https://quicksite.stavros.io/ ), which I made for exactly this purpose.

Thank you! I've bookmarked it, I'll look at it with my SO, he's the more technical one :D

Great, hopefully it won't be too hard to set up.

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by oshea64bit »

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the foreword has little to do with the rest of the article. I was hooked after reading the beginning anecdote, but the transition to a general overview of security concepts felt a bit abrupt. I agree with the general sentiment of the article though. I'm glad that there's been an increasing amount of attention placed on privacy lately.

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by auslegung »

matz1 wrote: post #43

So privacy matters because the information can be used against you. That is reasonable but hiding information is not the only the way to fix the issue. Knife can be used to harm people, sure you can fix it by banning/destroying knife but thats not the only way to fix the issue. I'm more interested to solution where we assume the information will be public and fix the issue that arise due to that.

I think your knife analogy is poor. Banning/destroying data is not what privacy is about. Privacy is about ensuring no one has your data who shouldn't. Knife safety also involves ensuring no one has a knife who shouldn't, such as toddlers.

Assuming all information is public and fixing the issues that arise is like giving everyone (even toddlers) a knife and then fixing the issues that arise from that. There is no fixing the issues that arise from a toddler having a knife. The solution is to take the knife away, they should not have a knife. The same solution is there for data, take the data away from the people who shouldn't have it, they should not have it. Or even better, don't get a knife to a toddler/your data to people who shouldn't have it in the first place.

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by mLuby »

mhh__ wrote: post #18
encom wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uBlock says 9 domains, and the article starts with a "trigger warning". Hard pass.

> trigger warning I dislike them, but I have met people who genuinely do not want to think about bad things. I can accept the viewpoint, but these are the people that turn a blind eye during genocides. If you really can't handle discussing topics like these I don't mind a warning, at least rather than self-censoring. However, I'm reminded of the fuss that was made over the term "Joyplot" due to the term Joy Division…

If you saw your family and friends murdered in a genocide and were understandably traumatized, it's reasonable to not force you to relieve that experience unprepared. A trigger warning for genocide would help you emotionally prepare to engage with the topic, or if you're still not ready, to avoid it.

It's not for society at large to dismiss controversial topics (though some people mistakenly use it that way).

Re: Why Privacy Matters

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Post by Nextgrid »

leakr wrote: post #17
atoav wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are writing about the importance of privacy, you might consider what you are doing about it yourself if you want to be taken seriously. It is 2020, setting up a website that doesn't send off the data of your trusting visitors to third parties should be totally standard. Yet not even people advocating for privacy can get this done. BTW. one benefit of not collecting and tracking is that you won't have to show t…

Yeah that's a great theorical piece of advice. But here's the thing. In 2020 if you don't wanna self-host your website and have a resilient and flexible website, you don't have other options than squarespace/wix and other platforms using cookies.

I use Squarespace and you can configure it to disable any tracking and not have to show a consent banner. Not sure about Wix.
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