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by Arnor 3866 days ago
I agree in principle, but in practice I don't care much if many of my accounts get hacked or subpoenaed. Sure, I'd like to keep my communication and financial information as private as possible. My code, maybe and my personal photos and documents, but if a hacker or government organization gets access to my chess.com account or my GrubHub, I really don't care. They'll find out that I have trouble against the Sicilian Najdorf and that I eat too much cheese cake (which as of this post is open record anyway :)
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"I don't need privacy, I've got nothing to hide"
No! That is pointedly not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that I don't need every detail of my life to be private. I prefer that nobody go in and start playing games on my chess.com account, but I'm willing to take a higher degree of risk with that specific account than I am with, e.g. my financial accounts.

It is possible to care about privacy and still accept a more convenient (less secure) way to access specific things.