They don’t try to explain. They just say “I have nothing to hide”.
It is as if they don’t mind having a CCTV installed in the house that is accessible by who knows.
“I have nothing to hide” Yes you do. Yes you do. Here’s my email: not_a_real_email@thisisan.analogy Send me all your login combinations for every single account you have. If you feel creeped out, then why are you not creeped out at how these corporations spy on you?
Hey i sent all my passwords and stuff but some guy called The Post Master just keeps replying?
This probably wouldn’t happen if you just would use windows…
Cause you care.
Corporation doesn’t give a shit about the information, and selling login information would be a massive scandal for them.
Like this analogy is asinine. It could be applied to a bunch of software that would have everything to lose being caught doing it.
They don’t need to sell that information to be untrustworthy, they just need to lose it.
This is how people steal your identity or buy stuff with your credit card even though you only gave that information to big corporations. It has happened a lot and is still happening.
As someone who has worked on large databases I can confidently say that every single piece of information the company had on all of it’s customers was available at my fingertips in clear text except for the passwords which I could have cracked in the thousands per second if they had less than 9 characters, which a lot of passwords did because the requirement was at least 8.
The only way the company can prevent me from doing malicious things with your data is if they only hire people with a moral compass and paying them enough. And the first one isn’t exactly easy.
There is not a lot you can do as a consumer to not get taken advantage of except minimizing the amount of data a company has on you because they don’t care enough and you will care once the police comes knocking on your door because of a crime someone did with your identity.
Hey, could you unlock your phone and hand me it so I can scroll through all your texts? No? Then you do have something to hide.
If that doesn’t work, try search history.
Apple doing the same spying while advertising as privacy friendly:
Microsoft-ies understanding they’re being spied on but not moving because games
The advice of “You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, so simply don’t break the law” is not a 100% effective strategy. It’s especially not good advice when jurisdictions are enforcing oppressive laws. Fuck big tech.
