<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 12:58 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">To me, being so private is just selfish. On the eff’n privacy HIPPA form they now have
for all the Docs, where it asks who can access my data, I always put everyone,
for any reason, forever. Before all
this, researchers could do great scientific studies on all the personal
data. No more. We could have had covid under much better control,
from the start, if everyone would allow tracking apps on their phone. But no, all the selfish bastards need to be
private, so more of us end up dying.
Doesn’t seem like a good trade off, to me.</span></p></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Surely you can imagine scenarios where your openness makes you easily exploitable ... you might even convince yourself that you're ok with being a farm animal because conditions are nicer than expected in the wild ... but something (maybe something ineffable) is lost when a wolf is turned into a lapdog.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You don't know what activities you may contribute to a blockchain with intent to be fully transparent that might later be retroactively illegal, or otherwise make it easier for an oppressive regime to identify you as a person of interest. Until/unless we are afforded (guaranteed) protection from the future, I'd rather preserve privacy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Call me selfish; I'll own that. :)</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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