Firstly, I’m not against privacy or anything, just ignorant. I do try to stay pretty private despite that.

I wanted to know what type of info (Corporations? Governments? Websites??) Typically get from you and how they use it and how that affects me.

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    25 days ago

    I feel like being spied on on the Internet is kind of like having a camera in your bathroom.

    Sure they promise they’re only going to point it at the sink and just make sure that you’re engaging in proper toothbrushing habits.

    Sure.

    But they’ll set it at the point where the mirror shows the shower and the toilet and they’ve got smell detectors in there to determine how much food you’ve eaten and how well your digesting it and there’s a sensor in the toilet to check the content of your urine and then if you drink too much they’re going to tell your boss that you’ve been drinking because they detected the alcohol that your body flushed out in your urine when you peed.

    And you have no control over who gets to see what’s going on in your bathroom.

    It is morally wrong and psychologically oppressing to be spied upon.

    And the powers that be are so focused on the benefits it gives them that they do not care about the negatives that affect us.