• mcv@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.

    But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.

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      7 hours ago

      I now fear it will one day be required for services on the internet (as it is by a recent law in California). I want to make that less likely, and more difficult to implement.

      Having a principle the majority do not have and refusing to participate means being another step further out of society.