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A comment on 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007). Parent comment

Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by kootling on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:48PM (#23055490)
Honestly I'm somewhat okay with companies collecting user data. They should just make it easy to opt-out of data collection and to delete all my data (i.e., "right to be forgotten").
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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by Ididntdothis on Saturday May 02, 2020 @07:56PM (#23055826)
And also not connect useful features to this opt out. For example Google Maps allows you to store locations only if you have location history enabled. I can't think of any reason for this besides an attempt to bully people into allow location history.
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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by sullyj3 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @09:38PM (#23056227)
It seems plausible to me that it's just a consequence of some contingent aspect of the design of the location system, and there's not a compelling reason to refactor.
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