What’s there to hide in the first place? Do you have such terrible skeletons in your closet or what?
Your full name, address, and phone number(s)
All emails you use and their passwords
Links to all of your social media accounts and their respective passwords
Bank account balances and transaction logs
Phone call and text records
Contact and address books of your friends and relatives
Edit: I suppose the people down voting do, in fact, have things to hide
More than half of info you mentioned I give ona daily basis to different merchants and services I interact with.
And guess what — it is Okay.
The security part (passwords etc.) is a different story, but as I see it — most just buy into this privacy scam without real understanding what exact goal they're trying to achieve.
Does posting bank transaction statements impose a security risk?
Part of it is that you trust and choose who to trust with the specific information you share, the rest remains private
Why aren't you sharing this stuff publicly, got some skeletons in your closet you're trying to hide?
And yes, if i ever want to bore you to death i will share all my emails (security data redacted) with you ;)
Ooh a fun one could be private messages from social media and your text message history as well.
Of course I assume we can get right on this because you have nothing to hide, right?
Anything taken to the extreme will sound ridiculous. Which hides the original issue and my point — nobody really care average person’s typical internet footprint.
With advertisers being one exception, and even their intent in most cases are harmful (show you a better targeted ad and minimize money waste).
And even with all the regulations they find a way to gather necessary data, because you just can’t avoid leaving footprints if you use internet.
So it’s _mostly_ an artificial battle against wooden windmills.
You just waste your time and money on that privacy crap while wheels keep spinning.
Of course there are important edge cases and concerns we can’t ignore. But I skipped them to illustrate my point.
Unless you don't want to post your information because you like your privacy?
Not caring about privacy is how we get even more detailed and widespread surveillance which is used in numerous discriminatory ways such as police using data for "targeted policing"