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1. baxtr+9d[view] [source] 2023-08-13 19:32:05
>>_____k+(OP)
I’m wondering: is there a good list of data privacy failure consequences?

There are good lists of breaches but few describing what happened to the people afterwards. Credit card theft resulting in a loss being the most obvious one.

Such concrete (real) examples would help me to argue with people who say: all this non-sense about data privacy. What would anyone want to do with your data anyways?

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2. kkfx+wj[view] [source] 2023-08-13 20:04:49
>>baxtr+9d
In mere privacy terms?

- a women start planning to have a child, her employer know that, she got fired before the conception, legally;

- you are someone who know his/shes knows his rights, no jobs for you since you are not easy to exploit;

- you have a certain political opinion, not nice toward the present government? You'll got hard career and all possible "issues", just like getting more traffic red lights than someone else, more police checks causing delays and so on.

The list is long. The point is: we can't design a society like a factory, we can't plan evolution beyond banal things, so we need noise, variability that nobody can master to ensure nothing can last too much impeding further evolution just because someone manage to grab a certain position of power and do want to end the history to remain there forever in a loop. That's why we need privacy, diversity, and so on.

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3. baxtr+Mj[view] [source] 2023-08-13 20:06:04
>>kkfx+wj
Thanks.

I was looking for real cases. Theory won't convince the nay-sayers

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4. pseing+nq[view] [source] 2023-08-13 20:45:38
>>baxtr+Mj
Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence.
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