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		jpz on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting wa... Most people are extremely nontechnical and are inadvertently ignorant rather than naive. People that don’t have jobs working with data, who are not technical or mathematical, aren’t going to know.

dspillett on March 20, 2018 [–]

Are people not taught about "stranger danger" as kids anymore? Why do they just trust that someone won't abuse the information that they hand over?

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