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I don't know, but my view of technology being awesome and wonderful and the way to a better future has died, and that makes me sad
I'll try to answer the question. How about this worry so many people have that technology facilitating any level of privacy is only going to be used for evil purposes. Even non technology cases. "Why aren't you putting your real name and hometown?" Because it's not relevant to this situation and nobody's business! "Why are you refusing to be in this cute video we're making for the company social media presence?" Because I don't want my picture out there for everyone to see, and to be able to extrapolate where I live and who I work for
I think I got our company social media person to actually think I might have been serious when I eventually started saying I was under some kind of witness protection just to get out of it without having the same battle every time
I'm still awaiting the moment someone finally has a reason to legally insist on looking into my background or whatever after the whole "what shady activity or history are you hiding, always wanting your privacy and refusing to volunteer information about yourself" only to find I'm completely clean. No criminal record, no suspicious affiliations (unless Lemmy counts, hah), nothing incriminating. I've lived an extremely boring life. I just value my privacy