@sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog @aral@mastodon.ar.al @sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog @aral@mastodon.ar.al It is a cultural difference, and we can state our position on it until we are blue in the face and neither one of us is going to change our position.
In Europe, privacy has a large amount of protection applied to it by law and socaially. In Australia PII is protected by law, but only if you are a govenment body, or a business entity making over $3 million. In a personal capacity there is no legal protections between individuals on a non-commercial engagement. So if you come over here, yes some jerk can follow you around in a public area with a shotgun mic and record your conversations without any recourse. Just like if I went to Europe i would have the legal protection for you to not have the same happening.
As of the instance that I administer, I have a privacy policy that sets out the social contract that I have with the end users of my instance and the others who’s data is held there. However, I cannot offer my users any protections for messages that leave my sphere of control, and so they need to protect themselves from bad actors.
My arguement is what you are missing, I am not stating that you have to protect yourself from me, I am not a jerk, you have to protect yourselves from the jerks of the world, and the community jumping up and down and stomping any bad actors that announce their presence instills a false narrative to the vulnerable that there is no-one slurping up their data on the sly.
