Re:Man used Coinbase to pay hitman in Bitcoin for wife's mur...
by SahAssar on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:55PM
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I strongly believe that privacy is important, but I also think that it is important for people to have clear expectations of when they can expect it.
Is it so absurd to say that if I post stuff publically I cannot expect it to be private and if I post stuff privately I should absolutely be able to depend on it to be private?
I think your example of parler is an example of a service that was not adequately secured to protect it's private communications and the facebook example is clearly unethical and just one of the reasons I don't use the service.
Facebook had created puppet profiles from people's contact information and made them public, notoriously.
Like, at what point would you like to accept that GPs statement is not hyperbole? Would all information that was private need to go public? By then I'd say it is too late.
This is a rather silly argument where you try to draw some line in online services that has been willfully greyed by the people who create these platforms for their own benefit.
If you want to call GP a privacy fatalist, then I'll just call you a privacy denialist and leave it there.