‘I’m Not Worried About My Data’

Most fears in everyday discussion about internet privacy focus on one of three things: cybersecurity risks, like compromised social security numbers, special-case hypotheticals like celebrity blackmail, or, most recently, election tampering. Each to a varying degree is a problem in its own right. Centering the data privacy discussion around them, however, also distracts from the greater risks of not having internet privacy, which go beyond compromised passwords and even election tampering because they affect everybody at an individual level.

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