tiny said:
This article (and video) explains why privacy is important: -snips-
Actually, I have watched this video before and think I may even have commented on it at one point lol. But I am rewatching it just so I can rebuttal some of the points.
He says people who say they do not care about privacy, they actually do. Such as putting locks on doors. That right there is just a fallacy as there is more than one reason why you would put a lock on a door and that reason for me isn't privacy. It's more about I don't want my shit stolen and it's a safety precaution. He would have been better off pointing to people putting curtains on windows. But even then a lot of people just do that for looks and design. Many people keep their windows wide open for anyone passing by to be able to see.
Now when we are talking specifically about bedrooms and bathroom, that has a lot to do with ... well, I don't want anyone walking in when im naked or taking a shit. Totally different circumstances lol. Yes, that is about privacy, but it's a totally different type of privacy. It's not about that you are doing something you don't want other people to know you are doing. Just by being in the bathroom we all know what the person is likely doing. The time frame of which they were in the bathroom also tends to suggest what they were doing.
The other issue I see here is this guy is talking about actual privacy in real life and comparing it to the type of privacy you have online. These are very different things. You can only monitor so much through the net, and really that is mainly what you are viewing. It's not like you have random people peeking in through your window. There are no visuals on exxactly what you are doing. You could be viewing a porn site, and technically it's not like they can see you jerking off behind the screen. This guy keeps pulling up real world examples, mainly because people actually care about real world privacy. I care about privacy when it comes to the real world. Actual eyes on me, random people. Obviously I don't want to be seen walking around in a diaper. But again, the internet isn't doing that.
Then he goes onto passwords and this is the same crap with locked doors. This isn't about privacy, it's about security. His examples are absolute garbage. Obviosuly I am not just going to give my password out, that is just stupid and it has nothing to do with privacy. Also, we are talking about the difference between a person that is quite literally looking at your stuff, and a machine that only records down useful stuff for advertising. There isn't a human behind those computers at microsoft looking at everything you do or recording every single detail that is unnecessary.
The reason I am not concerned about all this crap is because I am not paranoid about what it is they plan to do with the information because I already freaking know what they do with the information and I know what they CAN and CANNOT do. They also don't publish any information they collect publicly. Like this guy is suggesting to look in your email and then publish whatever it is he wants to publish. He is using extreme examples that no one is actually doing, and there is no indication such a thing will ever occur.
I will continue watching and update this if I feel it needs to be ... but that is what I have to say about his arguments. To me they are stupid and have absolutly nothing to do with what we are actually talking about here. That kind of violation of privacy he is talking about isn't what is going on here.