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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. momirl+Il[view] [source] 2023-08-13 20:17:14
>>baxtr+9d
ask them to share their email password
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3. Karuna+kp[view] [source] 2023-08-13 20:39:34
>>momirl+Il
Not a useful argument; anyone making the "nothing to hide" argument is implicitly arguing the trustworthiness (or the low likelihood of a mistake impacting them) of the state/justice system. You and other members of the general public are not part of that.

This is also why the snippy "so you don't have (locks on your doors/blinds on your windows/etc.)?" comeback does not work.

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4. jaredh+nw[view] [source] 2023-08-13 21:19:44
>>Karuna+kp
Who makes up the state and justice system? Is it not people?
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5. Karuna+Yt3[view] [source] 2023-08-14 19:55:53
>>jaredh+nw
"Officer" is indeed a subclass of "Person", but the former includes a StateAuthority mixin that modifies its acceptable and expected behavior in a number of ways that make it unreasonable to blindly substitute one for the other.
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