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Comment by cornedor | Hacker News Reader

Not a user, but isn't de difference here that users might expect a shared item only to be visible for friends, but instead it is public?

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That is possible. I wouldn't think that because there are no "friends" in this app but I could see why a Facebook user might think that. On the other hand, when you open the app you immediately see content from people you aren't connected to. It all feels very public to me.

I opened the app and the third post was someone making a note to self to cancel their car insurance, followed by a reply comment saying oops that wasn't supposed to be public, so at least one user was confused.

It seems to be mostly generated pictures though.

Your question is important because we need to understand nothing is private online. Yes, thankfully our bank accounts and other important info is PW protected, however, these PW's are eventually stolen by data breaches. (Didn't we all recently have to change our PW's on FB, Microsoft, Google and Apple?)

To think that anything used on AI is going to stay private is nice, but not likely.

Bad take. And these types of takes are why privacy continues to be eroding.

I agree with you that privacy right now is fragile at best. Disagree that it needs to be.

Please explain. I don't think that privacy should ever be fragile.

Why did we all “have to change” our passwords on these large platforms. What happened? Was there a leak I didn’t hear about?

Only 184M, this time!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/184-million-...

That wasn’t a data breach, that was malware:

> The records exhibit multiple signs that the exposed data was harvested by some type of infostealer malware.

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