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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Humans behave better when they’re being watched (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 day ago by francois@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”

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[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

Also, they have no way to learn from mistakes because a single mistake as a teen or young adult can mean an entire lifetime of consequences even if little to no harm was done. If you only do things out of fear without knowing the reason they're bad, then you never learn why your impulses might be bad and eventually you'll do something with much more severe consequences. This is why many kids raised in strict environments, like religion, stereotypically end up getting into so much trouble later in life. They have no experience with the real consequences, only the extreme, fabricated ones.