Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?

HandOfDoom@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 491 points –

I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data.

But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they "have nothing to hide", and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else.

So, why should people worry about data privacy even if they have "nothing to hide"?

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This is a great question to use because how many of these people have given their smartphone location permissions? Google knows when they speed already.

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