Most of the time the reason that people want to be private is to stop mainstream tech companies from gathering their data to use for targeted ads. But I’m kind of cuirous to see what are others motives for wanting to be private online.

  • @jazzfes@lemmy.ml
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    53 years ago

    I believe that a lack of privacy will eventually lead to a totalitarian state, doesn’t matter whether that state will be run by a private, totalitarian corporation or a totalitarian government

    • @lovehumanity1@lemmy.mlOP
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      23 years ago

      It really depends on how they use the data that they are given. They could use this to create a totalitarian government. But how look around you, it seems like we are coming close to that with all the censorship online surrounding any covid related information. I know of this one person who uploaded a video discussing his thoughts surrounding it and got a strike on his channel that has 26k subs and the video deleted and a message from youtube that if he talks about covid again he will be banned from youtube. That is just one example and I’m sure there are thousands more like it.