No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data

Re:No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Th... by 0xb100db1ade on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:18AM (#18104426)

> "Maybe I should have been more apprehensive, but everyone has your information at this point anyway," she said. "To give out my name and email and what I study does not seem so risky to me."

I hear this a lot. As a privacy advocate myself, what is the best response to this?

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Re:No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Th... by samontar on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:00AM (#18104714)

Maybe recognize that what you care about isn’t what others care about.

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Re:No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Th... by mortond on Sunday September 30, 2018 @06:22AM (#18105528)

I think this question is interesting, what can we do about it?

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Re:No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Th... by thewizardofaus on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:41AM (#18104495)

And from that I can track down your social media accounts, perhaps your forum accounts, you most likely have the same username/identifier for all forums, correct? Now I know everything about you.

Also important to emphasise that once you know someone's user/email you can cross reference against leaked database dumps to reveal passwords. They might have changed them since on X website but may not on other sites.

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Re:No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Th... by Goodmanw on Sunday September 30, 2018 @08:36AM (#18105909)

Just give them random fake answers as the response.

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Re:No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Th... by dhnsmakala on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:27AM (#18104450)

"You're right"

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