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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
Also - WHY someone wants to know something is often more important to me than WHAT they want to know, and "what they could do with it" is contrasted with "what they are likely to do with it". A nosy neighbor is creepier to me than Amazon collecting my reading habits. Statistically, the neighbor is more likely to cause me grief than Amazon.
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With Amazon you know what you're getting into upfront; it's an opt-in. You deal with them or not at *your* choice.
Just like actors and performers and politicians who *choose* to trade off privacy for money and/or power. (Some of us simply chose to sell smaller pieces of ourselves, if at all.)
Neighbors and, worse, relatives are hard to manage opt-out scenarios and some simply won't accept a "no".
Privacy is an illusion; all there is, is people and organizations (and super-duper computers) you *know* are somehow watching/tracking you and the ones that you don't know about yet.
(Like the good looking blonde just down the street.
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