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If you don't demand privacy you get no privacy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 18 hours ago by lunatique@lemmy.ml to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I am a privacy supporter. I believe you get to know your information to the extent you want to know it and that others should only know what you allow them to know about your information.

Saying that, I will say that even more than the dislike I have for the companies stealing people's data, I have even more for the customer who tolerates it.

I posted to a privacy group that you need to "read the terms of services." Instead of learning and gaining a responsible mindset as a consumer. People had the nerve to get mad lol. If you don't read the terms of services that ironically in most cases tell you they are taking your data and using it for shit you wouldn't like or agree with, how can you get mad?

You wouldn't even become a victims if you read it because you would already be aware of the reality. I find that to be so ignorant of customers it almost (but doesn't) warrant the 1984 practices being used against them.

If we stopped supporting this shit it CAN'T happen. So remember If you don't demand privacy you get no privacy

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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Did you forget what constitutes as an opinion from what is preaching? Because it started promising but then you got all preachy which is something we didn't come to read.

Plus, it's not even that unpopular anyways because privacy is an issue of itself so nobody is going to argue against the idea of having no privacy except to be ironic.

I think the gist of this instance has gone over your head.

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Downvoting. Saying privacy has to be demanded is an unpopular opinion, so that’s fine. But you get downvoted when you start lecturing people to read the ToS. I’m a lawyer, and I never read that shit because I’m a human fucking being who does not have time to read contracts of adhesion. Acting like you relinquish privacy rights by clicking “I agree” to 100+ pages of terms and conditions is batshit insane.

[–] lunatique@lemmy.ml -1 points 12 hours ago

You sound like a bad lawyer. If you told me that I wouldn't hire your ass. Too lazy to read my case lol tf wrong with you people

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Your opinion inst unpopular in the American legal system. At least not when it comes to 5th Amendment rights. You've probably heard the "you have the right to remain silent" thing on TV. And it's true, you do. However you have to demand this right. And you have to be specific. For example, a suspect in LA told his interrogators "I want a lawyer, dog". However the interrogation continued. The LA Supreme Court ruled that the prisoner had not invoked his rights because "there are no lawyer dogs in Louisiana".

Seems like bullshit to me.