Also, as long as people perceive it as a net benefit they'll put up with all kinds of privacy invasions. Being part of a society is always a tradeoff of certain liberties for certain securities.

Finally a coherent comment on privacy!!!

This place (the fediverse) is a circle-jerk of FOSS and paranoid privacy nuts: This comment has been a sane reference point.

I feel like one of the issues is that there's just no good regulations on data. I don't mind the ideals behind some of the things that are happening (better ads for Internet tracking, better designs from data derived from the telemetry in cars), but much of this doesn't have the same kind of regulation compared to say, medical data, which makes trusting these companies with the data very hard.

Just you wait until insurance companies start charging you extra because you go to McDonalds once a month, or because you drive 5 miles over the speed limit sometimes. Or your ex wants revenge and pays someone on the dark web to get dirt on you so you lose custody of your kid. So much stuff can go wrong, and we shouldn't take it lightly.

If you think you have nothing to hide, you're not using your imagination enough.