Most of the time the reason that people want to be private is to stop mainstream tech companies from gathering their data to use for targeted ads. But I’m kind of cuirous to see what are others motives for wanting to be private online.
Most of the time the reason that people want to be private is to stop mainstream tech companies from gathering their data to use for targeted ads. But I’m kind of cuirous to see what are others motives for wanting to be private online.
The rules can change rapidly and leaving a permanent record of your activity can be a liability, you can see many examples of this from history. e.g. the Khmer Rouge, or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
more recent examples: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/big-tech-firms-may-be-handing-hong-kong-user-data-to-china