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Only if you cleverly conflate social privacy with data privacy and conflate security with privacy.

Ask someone how much they care that their bank details are known to the machines at Intuit when they setup their Mint account, or how much they care that random bank employees can see & manage their entire financial life when they call customer support or visit a teller.

Ask them how much they care that some machine somewhere in a Google datacenter is running an algorithm on every email they get.

In my experience, most people just want to keep parts of their lives private from people they know. They will upload nudes to iCloud and make jokes about FBI agents finding them.



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