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Re:How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful by exergy on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @03:52PM (#14303260)
You're raising excellent points, but I doubt you'll get a satisfactory explanation here.

My brother does digital advertising for a living, whereas I have an opaque sticker on my front webcam. We come from opposite ends of the privacy spectrum, and talk about this issue every so often. And yet, I've never succeeded in convincing him that lack of privacy online will impact him personally. The reason for that is that it probably won't. He's savvy enough, like most people, to keep his accounts private to random Google searches of him. But he uses FB, snapchat, instagram, and all of them heavily. Ultimately, I'm forced to admit that being in touch with friends on FB adds value to his life. The fact that I personally don't care for that doesn't mean he doesn't or shouldn't, and for him, the trade-offs are completely acceptable.

Re:How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful by lm_nop on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:50PM (#14303691)
Those who aren't savvy (or rich/powerful) enough are those who would be impacted more by lack of privacy - even if the mechanism for lack of privacy is the user's own lack of understanding of what not to post online or how to control apps' privacy settings. COPPA Restrictions are a good example of important functional control of data privacy for those who aren't full-on techies (like children).