Re:A New Era of Mass Surveillance is Emerging Across Europe
by tjl on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:02AM
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Another thing with services like Facebook is that even if you're not on it officially, you're likely in the database as people will tag you in photos and have you in their address book. Then, there's other things like their cookies on web pages around the net.
Reducing the ability to share information is just as much a violation of pricacy as some one "stealing" it and disclosing it them selves.
The problem with Facebook and the likes is that by default anything you post to them is no longer yours hence no longer private and no matter how much security options they give you the potential loss of privacy is the same.
One of the major issues with this debate is that people equate anonymity with privacy and as a positive thing, confuse privacy with secrecy and can't agree if all they want is effective privacy or principle privacy.