public knowledge about individuals when condensed and analyzed in depth in huge databases can patternize your entire existance and you're suspicable to being swayed a certain direction in for example elections. Creating further divide and into someone elses pockets.
Keening
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Gotta think larger than yourself though. What happens when your spouse uses real info? your kids? your parents? they'll shadowplay your person with great accuracy and fill in the gaps. You don't even have to "put content" out there. Said databases can just put two and two together. How will you, or other uses even know you're actually talking to a human? perhaps you're on Lemmy and we're all bots trying to get you to admit fragments of your latest crimes in order to get you into jail for said crime? etcetera. At first glance this all looks harmless but any accumulated information in huge databases is a major infringement to personal integrety at best; and complete control of your freedom at worst. The ultimate power is when someone can make you do X or Y and you don't even realize you're doing their bidding; but believe you have a choice when you don't. (Similiar to how it is in my living situation at home with my gf that is :P jk.)
Hakuna matata. Happy new year