nah fuck that. this is of course a (very bad taste) rage bait but: poor people deserve even more privacy than rich people most of social order relies on privacy: what would happen if the government released all the details they have on you, hospitals your patient history or telecoms all your text messages? yeah, social collapse privacy underwrites trust at scale for most of humanity history, privacy was a fact by default as the vast majority of communications and personal data was not recorded in any way now tech companies and credit bureaus have more information on each of us that we might have ourselves, and we should have the right to be forgotten now, there are multiple reasons why privacy is a class issue and if you pretend otherwise you're straight up delusional: 1- money is a privacy shield: rich people can buy privacy and have margin of errors, poor people get audited/harassed and can get nuked by small data leaks > poor people are not going to set up shellcos or have their lawyers bury or dress up information. a landlord seeing one red flag, an employer seeing one sus data point, a bank seeing one late bill can become existential threats very fast. rich people can absorb hits but poor people lose their jobs or get evicted 2- social services are basically surveillance engines > poor people interact with the state way more: welfare, housing, healthcare subsidies, unemployment. every one of these comes with invasive data collection. rich people barely touch these systems 3- public shaming hits the poor harder > online humiliation is mildly annoying for someone with money and status. for someone without either, it becomes actual material harm: lost jobs, lost housing, lost community (which is basically their social safety net) 4- the "anyway they should have nothing to hide” argument is a luxury belief > it’s easy to say when you’re insulated by wealth, lawyers, and institutions that bend for you. the poor have everything to hide because everything can be used against them aaah now i'm pissed