"New privacy risk" what the hell.

The whole internet is a privacy risk from the start. Don't want any risk? Don't publish anything. Go live on an island. Be a random.

I'm fond of boosting privacy issue awareness, but jumping directly to "booh new privacy risk" every time is insane.

> Don't want any risk? Don't publish anything.

I don‘t, and still my data was shared by other people because they posted something or gave by private number to FB and WhatsApp.

It’s a new privacy risk and it’s legit to name it every time it is one.

Do you say the same every time they found a new cause for cancer?

15 years ago I'd have agreed with you. However we've managed to make almost everything about life, happen on the Internet. Not just the "fun" things, but identification (and verification thereof), communication, payment, bureaucracy, hell even medicine in many ways.

We cannot lull ourselves into this idea of "technopia" where everyone - 100% of everyone - is acutely aware of privacy risks and proper security and safety posture on the internet. That will never happen, and only puts disadvantaged individuals at risk - especially since we've effectively forced them to use a system they're not capable of operating safely.

> I'm fond of boosting privacy issue awareness

No, you very clearly are not if you think it is "insane" to even just talk about this as a privacy issue. The location of an EXIF stripped image can easily be inferred, automatically, at scale, with high accuracy. If that isn't a privacy issue, I don't know what is. You may not feel it is a big concern, or you may have given up on privacy, but don't gaslight me into thinking that this is not a privacy concern. That would be literally insane. Why are you so upset with this being talked about as a privacy issue?

And I don't know why you feel compelled to give this disclaimer. Sounds like the bad faith "as a diehard conservative/liberal, this conservative/liberal policy goes too far" when in fact they are not from that side at all. "Privacy is harder now on the internet, so it is impossible, just give up" is what everyone who profits from personal data collection wants you to think.

Sadly that is part of the internet commenter's rhetorical toolbox now. Every argument sounds a little stronger if you say that you are usually part of one team on this side of the argument, but you think your team has gone too far on this one. Classic enlightened centrism. What an independent thinker! If only it were true.

Naive. This is risk at a whole new level - and should be raised in an article such as this, as it was.