I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data.

But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they “have nothing to hide”, and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else.

So, why should people worry about data privacy even if they have “nothing to hide”?

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    1 year ago

    It isn’t used to make anything of me at all. You don’t seem to understand how this data is collected, aggregated and sold.

    Literally no one has a profile on me specifically. Relevant bits of data are captured and filtered and packaged and sold without any human interaction.

    There is no database entry for you as a person.

    I’m not being manipulated because I am neither 12 nor a Republican.