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Comment by return0 | Hacker News Reader

honestly, who cares about that data?

My ex-girlfriend was kicked out of her church and disowned by her parents because she admitted to being sexually active. She was a senior in high school. She had to finish the school year living out of her car and relying on friends' charity.

Privacy is a protection against (often irrational) people who are out to hurt you.

There might be reason for people to care about the general fact of "did they have sex?"--but this can be inferred/derived from other sources, e.g. purchasing habits.

How people are having sex, on the other hand, is pretty irrelevant to everyone except those people, isn't it?

The attorney-general of Virginia is seeking to preserve a law that would ban sodomy, which in Virginia includes oral sex. Yes, there are some people who think that how you have sex is very much their business, notwithstanding the fact that they talk out the other side of their mouth about their disdain for big government (I refer here to his arguments against Obamacare).

http://theweek.com/article/index/247156/ken-cuccinellis-crus...

I'm sure people with marital problems might! :P

Why say "who cares" about privacy, anyways? Even if you don't personally need it, you needn't erode other a privacy someone else might value.

Privacy has a way of never returning once lost.

Your soon to be ex wife, if your data doesn't jibe with hers.

Religious people, for one.

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