• BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    117·
    5 days ago

    Absolutely can’t stand the “I have nothing to hide” response. Like y’all aren’t parroting Nazi propaganda.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      61·
      5 days ago

      “nothing to hide”

      just wait until your smart fridge notifies your insurance company (who knows you’re diabetic) that you just bought a gallon of NOT sugar free ice cream. think they’ll give a rat’s ass that it’s not for you? i bet they’ll be more than happy to raise your premiums either way. or worse

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
        15·
        5 days ago

        I am in the minority but if i ever had a fridge that’s costing me money like that it would never be a brand I would ever associate with ever again and the current one is being tossed ASAP. I’m also not connecting fridges to my wifi either because why should it be?

          • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
            13·
            5 days ago

            You got me on the phone, but my car is from 2007 and doesn’t even have Bluetooth lol so I am good on that one for now. I do try a little by removing all the stock apps, no social media except this, and lock down my network to block as many sites that report home from lists online. Since I’m home 90% of the week, if not more, im at least doing more than most would.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          13·
          5 days ago

          In the future, all Fridges will do it. You’ll have 10 brands to choose from but they’ll all collect your personal data and send it out via built in cell service.

          • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
            14·
            5 days ago

            the data they collect from scanning the upcs in your fridge alone would be worth millions-- how fast you consume one thing vs another, how far away you live from the store (derived from data shared taken from your grocery “rewards/membership” card), what kinds of meals you’re making with the ingredients, and the size of those meals— all information they will exploit to make even more money from you

            in case you were joking: you weren’t really

          • riot@lemmy.world
            5·
            5 days ago

            And in this future scenario, even if it isn’t all fridges that phone home, or you somehow manage to disable it on a fridge that does, I’m sure that’ll make your premium go up too. It’ll be advertised as a cost-saving measure - “Give us access to this data, and you premium will be less! (Until we see you buying something outside of your plan, in which case, you’ll have to pay more)”

        • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          5 days ago

          ring doorbells can connect to the Internet through each other. Imagine a fridge made by amazon that uses the same network. Now imagine amazon giving discounts to apartments making it more attractive to cheapskate landlords. I can imagine insurance companies paying amazon surprisingly small sums to make this happen.

    • entwine413@lemm.ee
      18·
      5 days ago

      When someone says this irl, I like to ask them if I can go look through their underwear drawer.

      Oddly enough the people with nothing to hide usually say no.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        This reminds me of when a neighbor reported to the landlord that we were smoking weed indoors. She claimed she could smell it in her own apartment. We weren’t (and weed is legal where I live, so it’s a moot point.) When the landlord came around, we let him come in and smell our apartment. He found nothing.

        So we suggested that the landlord go smell HER (the narc’s) apartment to confirm how bad the smell is. Guess what? She refused to let him in.

        If she ever attempts to complain again, the procedure now will be to investigate her apartment first. If she refuses, we won’t be bothered. So yeah.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      112·
      5 days ago

      It is a weird cope and it is wild how that’s the default response to vast majority of the people.

      Is bootlicking programed into human DNA?

      I don’t get it. ESP being smug about it to boot.

      • lath@lemmy.world
        316·
        5 days ago

        Yes it is. Biologically speaking, we’re programmed to make way for the strong and steal crumbs from the devastation caused by their passing.

        Or to stalk and annoy the strong until they fall and we can pillage their corpse.

        Either way, we’re not really the direct confrontation type. We’re the sneaky, backstabby, dirty fighting type.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      8·
      5 days ago

      “Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty.”

    • okgurl@lemmy.world
      113·
      5 days ago

      I’m not parroting anything. I just also realize the vast scale of the data imo makes most of it worthless outside of demographics ad targeting lol

  • Regna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    5 days ago

    I just had that comment the other day from a recruiter who “dug into” my socials with the help of “expert tools”. She said “Aww… you seem really nice to everyone!” (eller “Faaaan… du framstår som så trevlig mot allt och alla!”) after browsing all my non-anonymous social posts and seeing which Facebook groups I’ve participated in. I had just about deleted my Meta accounts before I realized I needed to have some kind of semblance of “social posting”, as my LinkedIn and such were pretty meager. The recruiting company unfortunately seems to prove that I need to have a social media trail in order to be employable in my field of expertise. Which has literally nothing to do with social media.

    • entwine413@lemm.ee
      20·
      5 days ago

      Maybe that’s why I can’t even get to the first round of interviews despite a decade of experience in the field.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      5 days ago

      Fortunately for you, LLMs are obnoxiously friendly, so why not generate a few slops of happiness for Meta every now and then. As a bonus, you’ll be polluting their next model too. It’s a win-win situation!

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
    8·
    5 days ago

    I have nothing to hide, except my alternative media sources. I also have absolutely nothing I’d like to share though.

    Just because I have nothing to hide doesn’t mean I’m going to keep my front door open and let you catalogue everything I own and watch everything I do

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Oh yeah. I have seen many a comic with the comparison and apple even had an ad about it. Its crazy what people will put up with for so little and if it were the government, oh boy, but you know all good because corporations have our best interest or they are not as powerful as governments to control us or ruin our lives… /s