Are you saying that it is ok to globally disregard privacy, profile users, sell their data/profile without them knowing or getting a part of this profit because it doesn't make your life worse ?
I don't think I said anything about global disregard. I asked why I should personally care. It seems like there are a lot of people trying to tell me I should care, but I did not once say that others should not care.
Well the reasoning is quite simple actually, if you care for freedom then you should care for privacy. Without privacy there's no freedom possible.
Maybe read some of the many posts around about privacy and freedom and rebuttal of the "I don't do anything wrong so I don't have to hide" argument:
you could start with the schneier's blog: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_...
But let me try to make a point of why you should personally care even though you don't know or understand why. This is a case of closing the barn door after the horse is gone, if you later learn the hard way you should have cared and go the extra step of protecting your data, you couldn't go back and get your data back.
And the sad reality is that if you have to learn this way, it means that history has indeed repeated itself again and you're enjoying living under a tyranny.
Well the reasoning is quite simple actually, if you care for freedom then you should care for privacy.
Sorry, but this sounds like the cr*p touted around by politicians and over zealous "patriots", along the lines of "if you don't support the war then you are not a patriot and therefore must support the terrorists".
Despite what most on HN would like to believe, outside of the tech community most people don't care about their privacy being invaded, and the OP is entitled to his opinion of not caring just as you (and I) are too overly caring. I believe that is the true definition of freedom, to be able to make ones own choice?
