Me in the 2010's: Can we take privacy seriously? "I don't have anything to hide" makes me anxious
You: Even if everything got leaked, it would be a massive effort to go through it all, and nobody would even be looking at *my* stuff specifically, and if they did, I'd be able to put the stuff that looks bad back into context so who cares?
Tech in the 2020's: All the biggest companies have hired massive workforces to go through every text or image on every platform, through legal means or not
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