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How do i convince my brother privacy is important? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by frengo_@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My brother seems to not care about his online privacy. He registers to services too easily without pondering, he’s not outraged we need a fucking account to use a vacuum cleaner, it seems he doesn’t care about all the potential risks of having videos of our indoors saved in a cloud. I don’t have strong arguments to convince him that privacy matters other than “if someone gets that, you could be in trouble” and “it’s like having someone watching you h24” and so on. How can i persuade him?

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[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This will be something of a unhelpful and unpopular answer, by you probably can't.

What would convince you to stop eating meat from factory farms? What would convince you to only buy electronics from completely ethically sourced companies? What would convince you to only eat healthy nutritional food? To exercise regularly? So on and so forth?

There are many good and important, but inconvenient, things to do. But for most folks, the first step is wanting to. If he doesn't, it will be an uphill battle.

[–] ampersandcastles@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Kind of unfair considering there isn't ethical consumption under capitalism.

[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your not wrong, though that kinda re-enforces my point. What would it take to convince a society to abandon an inherently unethical economic system?

[–] ampersandcastles@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Dunno, I wake up and ask myself that every day. How do people want to be a slave?