Q: Do you have any advice for how to talk to friends and family about privacy? My friends will say they don’t care about Facebook having their data, because they don’t know any employees at Facebook, so they’re not worried about embarrassment. Here’s how one ad industry veteran put it to me: “People only care about privacy in the abstract — not in reality. with that information being collected by financial companies and credit agencies. But are they fine with those customers trading that information with other companies (often this happens without our knowledge)?

Source: New York Times April 23, 2019 19:07 UTC