Why protect your data privacy?

[anonymouser]

Why do some people still think that privacy is desired only by people who do (really) bad things?

That said, who actually wants your juicy private data? The following are just examples.

1. Health insurance companies - which hospitals or clinics you visit, what laboratory tests you make and their results, and what medicines are prescribed to you or bought by you, to determine their risk of accepting an "unhealthy" client.
2. Car insurance companies - your whereabouts while driving, your driving experience, and whether you have been issued tickets due to "misbehaved" driving, to determine their risk of accepting an "careless" client.
3. Banks and other loan issuers - your shopping behavior, your salary, your job, and even your health (to determine whether you spend a lot for doctors, tests, and medicines), to determine their risk of lending money (they can print over thin air) to a "poor" loanee.
4. Companies who are hiring - your political/sexual interests, your physical/mental health, your intimate personality, etc., to determine their risk of hiring a "disobedient" slave employee.
5. Governments - your "lawfulness" (up to you to elaborate), to determine their risk of lending (a little) power to a "terrorist".

Those entities are just on top of my head, and it would be tiring to try to enumerate them all.

Why trust any entity to respect your privacy

when they could simply share/sell your data to others without you knowing?
That is not unless for every breach of your privacy of those who handle your private data, there is a whistleblower.

Can you ever tell whether somebody looked at or shared your private data without your permission?
That is not unless we live in the quantum era where anybody who looks at your quantum-protected data will trigger an alert.

Come on, we are not (yet) living in a society like that in the dystopian novel "We", where people live in transparent glass houses and are granted only an hour of "privacy" each day (outside of public eyes, but not everyone).

(my related post about your digital privacy)

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I have read somewhere over the Internet the following friendly reminder:

We never share your data, but we cannot prove that we don't, so assume that we do.

What you can do right now is simple:

Use their services, but don't (blindly) trust them.

(cameras image on this post from Pixabay)

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