In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse:

1: The abdication mindset: The idea that privacy is dead, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, privacy is dead if you let it die.

2: The absolutist mindset: The idea that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. But the reality is much more nuanced than this.

Even if they sound like diametric opposites, both those ideas can be very damaging to privacy.

Privacy isn't just about the tools we use. Privacy is a culture we need to build, together.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/

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Now that lots of people are talking about privacy and security for some reason, 🤔 I like to remind people that data goes stale.

Meaning that maybe in the past you've taken very few privacy precautions and your personal information *sweeps arms in wide circle* is "out there already." But our political affiliations, music tastes, fashion, purchasing choices, medical status, relationship status, location, job, etc. all change over time. That data from 10 years ago or even 2 years ago? Not as valuable as the sites you're browsing and the places you're visiting and the things you're purchasing today.

Meaning: It is never too late to start practicing better privacy protocols. Think of your data like a drafty house. Completely sealing the place might be impossible, but you can take a can of spray foam to the biggest, most obvious holes right now and that will make a difference.

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