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by q_queue 2499 days ago
As much as the more concerned of us cringe when we hear it, "Why should I care, I have nothing to hide?" is going to be the predominant answer to that question from the majority of facebook users. And morals and ethics aside, they have a point - very few facebook users have experienced a direct, tangible, personal harm as a result of facebook's surveillance of them.

The objections are always on the basis of what should be done, what could happen, and the (decreasingly) abstract harm it brings to society as a whole.

Grandma just wants to see pictures of the grandkids and hasn't had a police visit or her passport cancelled because of something she's said online yet, and she probably thinks those concerns are nebulous enough to not worry about, or scoffs at them as crazy conspiracy theory.

Maybe the right thing to do is try to convince her it's worth worrying that her grandkids might live in a dystopian surveillance society where a careless word can cost you your social status and career?