Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
by geocar on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:14AM
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> think about whether you'd rather have your bank statement made public or a large, visualizable data set representing most of your browsing history.
If someone got access to my banking details, they could do far more damage than just make my bank statements public.
Now I've dealt with identity theft and credit card fraud, and I work in digital marketing, so I know which one I'd choose: Nobody is going to visualise my individual browsing history, and even if they did (for what reason I can't imagine), I can't imagine what they'd do with it! I can imagine someone might try to build a demographic profile about me to sell me stuff that I'd like, but that's good because it would be stuff that I would like.
Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
by MichaelGG on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:37AM
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But in those cases it sounds like it was because they didn't even use private mode, were logged in, or didn't clear history. Not because LE got a subpoena for shady-ad-network.
If someone got access to my banking details, they could do far more damage than just make my bank statements public.
Now I've dealt with identity theft and credit card fraud, and I work in digital marketing, so I know which one I'd choose: Nobody is going to visualise my individual browsing history, and even if they did (for what reason I can't imagine), I can't imagine what they'd do with it! I can imagine someone might try to build a demographic profile about me to sell me stuff that I'd like, but that's good because it would be stuff that I would like.