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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  2441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Facebook logs your call history

I dunno. Some of us don't want a log of everything we've ever done on a random server





nowaypablo  ·  2441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I kinda just always assumed that I'm trading up my privacy to a general internet datapool when I first even started going online. I guess that's why I'm not surprised/bothered by it.

tacocat  ·  2441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm 35. I remember when the internet was new and novel.

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I sometimes wonder if people younger than me will have any expectation of privacy. I started to write a sci-fi book about it at one point and can honestly not remember where the fuck I was going with that thing

oyster  ·  2441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don’t really like the idea of all my information being on some server but I think people find comfort in the volume. Like, I just don’t matter, nobody is sitting at a computer rifling through my data looking at when I FaceTimed my family.

tacocat  ·  2441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I do buy security through obscurity. I just never opted in this