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> Privacy does not protect you from the state. Privacy is good enough to protect you from the public.

Public doesn't care mostly. Governments on the other hand...




The public includes online mobs who send you death threats. It definitely matters to protect your identity from the public


The “public” also means the private industrial sector, and nowadays they are by far the biggest threat for people living in the Western world.


The public might care if you are rich, influential, or conventionally highly attractive, in which case privacy is a good thing to have.




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