Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
by darpa_escapee on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:50AM
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> Privacy is literally life and death for people.
This is what loses most people, because they don't think it's a big deal if someone reads their Facebook messages.
Privacy is what prevents gay people from getting purged in Chechnya[1]. Privacy is what keeps political dissidents and religious minorities out of concentration camps[2]. Privacy is what keeps our spies from being executed.
And for those who scoff at the idea of a state-level actor coming after them: privacy is what prevents someone's abusive partner from murdering them when they choose to leave the relationship[3].
This is what loses most people, because they don't think it's a big deal if someone reads their Facebook messages.
Privacy is what prevents gay people from getting purged in Chechnya[1]. Privacy is what keeps political dissidents and religious minorities out of concentration camps[2]. Privacy is what keeps our spies from being executed.
And for those who scoff at the idea of a state-level actor coming after them: privacy is what prevents someone's abusive partner from murdering them when they choose to leave the relationship[3].
[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/685192372/https://www.npr.org...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/oct/20/...