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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No. You really can't. But that's a different argument.
Your decision to care threatens to impose a loss of convenience for me. Is it any wonder why people like me keep trying to persuade others why your concerns aren't that relevant?
No one's on the side of the angels, here.
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I think you are confusing privacy with security. They are related but not the same thing. In most instances all that is required to improve privacy is to NOT collect the data in the first place, or to collect it at a higher level. (eg: Almost no one needs to know my actual date of birth, for marketing purposes my age bracket is quite sufficient. The list goes on.)
But it's true that the decision to care would likely cost something - not convenience, probably actual dollars. If companies get less data to profit from then they are going to want some other compensation. But if everyone cared that cost per individual would likely be nominal.