>I simply stopped worrying and began to love the bomb

This may apply to the consequences of ones data being subject to so many breaches and leaks and thefts, but it should not be the attitude one adopts towards the idea of ones data being taken and used by so many parties. At some level, my data is my personhood - it is my evidence of myself, and my record of myself, and my proof of myself. It encodes who I talk to, what I'm interested in, where I go, and what I do. My health, my finances, my habits, vices, schedule, family, friends, coworkers, beliefs. People more clever than myself use this data to advertise to me; people more powerful use this data to surveil me. When will people more malevolent use this data to persecute me?

I should not have to love the bomb because the bomb will kill me.

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lencastre 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

well isn’t the point of the movie that if you have a doomsday-(dead man switch)-device you should let everyone know?

I don’t get that comparison with data being available everywhere

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kspacewalk2 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Loss of privacy has no upsides. The bomb, on the other hand, saved many millions of lives over the last 80 years, so it works as a metaphor everyone shares, but the metaphor itself was always much more arguable with nukes. It's possible to actually rationally love the bomb, but what are the upsides for everything about me being exfiltrated at will?

	▲	bonoboTP 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, but of course there is. He you ever seen arguments from the other side? It is to catch criminals of various sorts (money laundering, trafficking, smuggling goods and people, terrorism etc), to keep children safe etc etc. Also,it can help you uncover and put behind bars your dangerous political enemies. That the tables may turn and the shoe may be on the other foot soon, that's too abstract of a thought to occur to most of them.
	▲	fpoling 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The upside is that you can know everything of almost any person as well. Whether that upside is beneficial for you is a different matter.
	▲	trimethylpurine 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It tracks terrorists' efforts to acquire the bomb.

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BobaFloutist 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, that's the direct subtext of that phrase.

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EA-3167 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Some of us are more practical than ideological, but we tend not to put as much energy into communicating our views as the ideological types. The result online is an often distorted sense of the universality and importance of ideology. You feel That your data is part of your personhood? I feel that it’s more like tracks in the woods and scat.