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And this is why I did not give my phone number to facebook and why I use a different email for everything.

It's unfortunate that keeping one's privacy requires a lot of knowledge and work.

It's unfortunate that keeping one's privacy requires a lot of knowledge and work.

I wonder if the more vexing problem is that the market for privacy solutions seems largely unproven at scale. While people seem to value privacy when polled individually, they seem to vote the other way as an aggregate body.

Smart privacy products could take the knowledge and work out of it, but will the market support them?

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