Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

Re:Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a mark... by ClumsyPilot on Friday July 16, 2021 @06:54AM (#27854921)

"Do poor people in a primitive society have more privacy than poor people in a developed country?"

Are you kidding? If I move to a different town, I can take on a whole new identity, a new name, hide my heritage.

Good luck tracking me down in medieval society if I move provinces, let alone countries.

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Re:Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a mark... by machinehermiter on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:05AM (#27855004)

Forget medieval society, this is like 1980.

When your information was on paper in file cabinets with thousands of other people it wasn't much better than having nothing at all.

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