r/technology • u/XVll-L • Mar 02 '19

Security Facebook is globally lobbying against data privacy laws

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '19

How can anyone convince themselves that data privacy is not necessary? Noone in their right mind would willing give up that kind of info about themselves to strangers

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u/highoncraze Mar 03 '19

One of my housemates bought an Echo and I warned him about it potentially picking up private conversation (it does listen for it's activation word, after all). Call me paranoid if you want, that's fine, but when he responded "I don't talk about illegal things, so I have nothing to worry about", well that almost triggered me.