r/privacy • u/SecretFirst0309 • 2d ago

discussion Is convenience killing our Right to Privacy?

Most of us trade data for convenience every day, location tracking for maps, saving passwords in our browser, cloud backups for photos, and using autofill for payments. It feels harmless until we realise how much of our identity is stored on someone else’s servers.

Every device in our lives is quietly collecting data. Laws like GDPR and India’s new DPDP Act exist, but enforcement is patchy. Once your data leaks, there’s no way to “get it back”. It’s permanent exposure.

How do you balance privacy vs convenience? Do you use privacy-first tools or do you just accept that surveillance is a part of modern life?

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u/tarkinn 2d ago

Pseudo-poetic nonsense trying to relativize the data greed of companies. 

You say „my data is not my identity“, which is also nonsense. My data reflects my identity and personality. I’m not my data but my data is me.

If you hadn’t mentioned several times that you work in tech, I would have know it either way.

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u/tarkinn 2d ago

I had the same suspicion. Either way such statements should be clarified, otherwise there may be people who actually believe them.

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u/Interesting_Gas_8869 2d ago

or the fact that reddit has this weird problem that if someone's got at least one downvote, they're gonna get more and more.