[WendyTheWillow]

Please provide one concrete example where this leaked information was used to materially impact someone's life that would not have otherwise been possible without the leak.

Absent that, the argument holds that screeching declarations about privacy tend to be overblown.

[gnulinux]

Goalposts keep being pushed:

* You don't have to care about privacy if you didn't do anything illegal.

* If you do care about it, you can just choose not to share your information.

* If you don't share but your data is still leaked, it didn't affect your life anyway.

The point is an average person is incapable of having boundaries with these corporations who have all their data and benefit from it, and we have no way of predicting how all this data about us will affect us.

[WendyTheWillow]

This is the first time you and I have spoken in our lives; it's impossible for me to have moved any goalposts.

The point is that these privacy claims are nearly exclusively theoretical. Privacy advocates constantly tell anyone who will listen about the complete destruction of privacy in modern society, and yet nothing even resembling the consequences they claim will occur is actually happening.

[l33t7332273]

Would it materially impact your life to send me a video each time you use the restroom?

Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you’re comfortable with it being shared.

[WendyTheWillow]

That counts, can you show an example of this data being used in that way? In literally any way at all, has this data actually been used for anything?

[jabradoodle]

It's being sold illegally on the dark web; how do you propose we tell you how it's being used?

[WendyTheWillow]

When something actually happens.

[illiac786]

the classic counter argument here is “when something happens, it will be too late”.

[WendyTheWillow]

Yes but we tend to frown on precrime arrests.