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Would Abolishing Privacy Be Beneficial?
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This will lead to widespread discrimination against certain groups.
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Health insurance rates and credit card rates will increase, targeting the most vulnerable in society.
This would ruin any form of diversity resulting in the mistreatment of people with different cultures. The system will go from liberal to far left in an instant. In the long run it won't allow people with different values to coexist. This opposes the initial idea of "liberal democracy". Liberal democracy is based on the idea of classical liberalism and advocates for civil liberties — such as privacy — under the rule of law.
Since the world doesn't have complete equality economically or technologically some countries would be better at surveillance than others giving them privilege over the rest.
Many people in positions of power (e.g. employers, legislators) hold conscious or subconscious biases against particular classes of people. Under status quo, individuals can choose to conceal certain characteristics they possess as a self-preservation tactic.
Having access to the database and the movements of marginalised groups would allow discrimination be further weaponised
People who are disfigured will not be able to hide their disfigurement and will thus face insecurity, unhappiness and impaired chances in life.
Discrimination will essentially be discouraged because the discriminator will fear publicization of their atrocities.
Being in favor of privacy implies information should be available only to certain groups or sorts of people. Therefore, abandoning privacy is a necessary path to equality.
Privacy is something that cannot be really achieved, this is especially true the more technology advances and pervades our lives. There are subjects that continually collect data about us, and they cannot be stopped or controlled. The more laws enforcing privacy we do the more we create a discrimination between those that can see other people privacy and those who cannot. Abolishing privacy would restore an equality on this.
This would actually make discrimination significantly easier to prove and prosecute.
Discrimination is able to become more rife when individuals continue to hide traits (e.g. their sexuality). It is reduced when these traits are more public and commonplace.
Women will suffer much less at the hands of men.
