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Shoutout to my friend who said 'I have nothing to hide' after giving a quiz app full access to her contacts.

She was shocked when her mom got a spam text about a 'personality test' she took, which made me realize people think data collection is just about ads, not about it being sold and used in ways you can't even see.
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reese_hayes71
Guess she found out her personality test results were "sells friends' numbers for spam.
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the_terry
the_terry18d ago
People willingly trade privacy for convenience all the time.
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jamie_adams
Trading privacy for convenience is just the modern version of paying for a service. You give a store your address to get a package, you give a quiz app some data to get a result. The spam text is just a bad delivery driver, not proof the whole system is broken.
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