Privacy rules are safety rules, and like all safety rules, they're written in blood.
It was within our lifetimes that women could not get credit cards without their husbands' permission. Still today, many doctors will not allow women to access reproductive healthcare without their husbands' permission.
People -- mostly women, queer people, and disabled people -- are regularly, routinely, endangered by their families. Privacy policies keep them safe.
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