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		UweSchmidt on March 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Google, am I pregnant? Protecting people from themselves has plenty of precedents - food industry, handrails... Regarding your second point: Many things that are not embarrassing or compromising (in a negative sense) are rightfully kept secret. Anyways, great topic, not so great subthread, I'm out.

dllthomas on March 3, 2014 [–]

"Many things that are not embarrassing or compromising (in a negative sense) are rightfully kept secret."

I don't intend any negative sense, just things that you have a particular reason to keep hidden. Allowing additional inference around that by being selective about channels seems like poor privacy practice.

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