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Comment by untog | Hacker News Reader

That's the entirely expected part. I don't know exactly which "we" you're referring to, but the tech scene in general absolutely did not warn people about the dangers of uploading these photos, on the contrary, they encouraged it.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect "everyday" people to know the dangers here. There hasn't been any education, so you can't say "nobody cares". Nobody is aware.

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That sort of the amazing part to me. Even on hacker news with very educated people they dont talk much about all the ways its possible to abuse it.

I think much of the tech scene is making money off it so no one says much about all the ways such info can be abused.

It's pretty hard to really critique FB here. There's wide respect for their technical prowess and achievements.

It's odd to me that they don't attract the ire the Microsoft did in the old days. They are far more dangerous.

He has it right - nobody cares. Even when people are made aware, they still don't care. Look at the security debacle of Snapchat, not to mention its lack of ethics. Even when the issues were exposed, the majority of users didn't care. Same with FB privacy. It's not just a matter of awareness. You have to almost throw a wrench at people to wake the majority up.

I doubt that awareness will make any different, even when people are told about the issues with using facebook / instagram they keep on using it.

People won't change until they get a serious wakeup call, but even then they will mostly not do anything.

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