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Analogy: if you have a photo sharing website, like Flickr, then from those photos (and the combination of different photos) Flickr can in theory derive a lot of sensitive information; does that make it somehow stupid or irresponsible to post photos to Flickr? I'd say that depends completely on how we expect Flickr to behave.

It's like visiting a physical pharmacy. In theory, somebody could be spying on the people who enter and leave the place, keeping a giant database with frequency, faces, etc. The question whether it is stupid to enter a pharmacy in person should be answered with: "No, we have laws that protect us against malevolent actors".




> It's like visiting a physical pharmacy. In theory, somebody could be spying on the people who enter and leave the place

People do this in the US with Planned Parenthood clinics and parking 4K cameras outside/across the street and license plate recorders/scanners.




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