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/TRILLION-AIRE 2d ago

I can't imagine the horrors of training LLM models on private information of people. Ai companies and big tech will basically know the next move we are likely to do even before we think about it.

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u/Flat-Employment-7369 2d ago

Thanks for making me paranoid, I'll never be able to use chatgpt the same