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How do you reply to people saying "i have nothing to hide?" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by JettuhGlowie@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Whenever i talk to people about privacy, specifically my friends when i tell them why i switched to Signal and stopped using WhatsApp, i'm always met with people saying that i'm just making no sense and "why would you care so much if you have nothing to hide? I don't care that meta sees that stuff" and some people are just so stubborn to understand that they might even settle on the "what would a billion dollar company want from me specifically?". It makes me mad how people refuse to even consider alternatives and open their mind a bit. What do you think?

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It makes me mad how people refuse to even consider alternatives and open their mind a bit. What do you think?

I've experienced this. For me, it was important to be able to communicate w people AND to not give all my data to Facebook apple or google. Since I can't make ppl care about privacy, the best I could do was stick w SMS/MMS.

Obv, messages I send to ppl who use and android or apple device still get sent up to the mother ship by the receiving device... but I can't control that.

There are a lot of great apps out there and Signal is one of em. I think if Signal still sent SMS/MMS to ppl without it... I'd reinstall. But without that, I'd be using it all alone.

Im getting rambly... what do I think? I think it would be healthy to move on

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I think you would switch your tune if you realized how much data your phone provider is selling about you. SMS is so much worse than Apple’s iMessage, which is e2e encrypted.

Like it’s pretty telling that Apple didn’t give data to the government when a literal terrorist killed a bunch of people, but the Feds can put in a simple request form and get the same data from Google in ten minutes.

The phone providers all sell off your info on their data marketplaces.