Digital Privacy Would You Rather questions
Modern privacy dilemmas about the trails our phones, apps and accounts quietly keep.
What makes these choices difficult?
private digital life versus public embarrassment. This set is designed for friends and adults, with a hard difficulty level. No option is presented as the correct answer.
- Would you rather have your AI prompt history turned into a public slideshow in an email to your family or have your recently deleted photos published without explanation in a notification to every contact?
- Would you rather have your weekly screen-time report revealed alongside your reaction time with your name attached or have your late-night notes published without explanation with your photo attached?
- Would you rather have your saved posts shown with exact timestamps on your public profile for a day or have your location history shown as a minute-by-minute timeline as your lock screen for a week?
- Would you rather have your camera-roll favourites read out in chronological order on the biggest screen you own or have your watch history shown as a minute-by-minute timeline through the loudest speaker nearby?
- Would you rather have your last twenty searches displayed with no delete button in your family group chat or have your muted accounts shown as a minute-by-minute timeline on your dating profile?
- Would you rather have your deleted messages posted without context to everyone at your birthday or have your unfinished drafts sorted by how suspicious they look to everyone at the next wedding?
- Would you rather have your purchase history ranked from least to most embarrassing until ten people have seen it or have your listening history sorted by how suspicious they look until ten people have heard it?
- Would you rather have your private browser tabs summarised by a brutally honest AI in an email to your family or have your recently deleted photos sorted by how suspicious they look in a notification to every contact?
- Would you rather have your AI prompt history revealed alongside your reaction time with your name attached or have your late-night notes sorted by how suspicious they look with your photo attached?
- Would you rather have your weekly screen-time report ranked from least to most embarrassing on your public profile for a day or have your location history read by someone who knows you well as your lock screen for a week?
- Would you rather have your saved posts turned into a public slideshow on the biggest screen you own or have your watch history read by someone who knows you well through the loudest speaker nearby?
- Would you rather have your camera-roll favourites displayed with no delete button in your family group chat or have your muted accounts read by someone who knows you well on your dating profile?
- Would you rather have your last twenty searches shown with exact timestamps to everyone at your birthday or have your unfinished drafts projected with the captions removed to everyone at the next wedding?
- Would you rather have your deleted messages read out in chronological order until ten people have seen it or have your listening history projected with the captions removed until ten people have heard it?
- Would you rather have your purchase history summarised by a brutally honest AI in an email to your family or have your recently deleted photos projected with the captions removed in a notification to every contact?
- Would you rather have your private browser tabs posted without context every Monday morning or have your app subscriptions projected with the captions removed every Friday evening?
- Would you rather have your AI prompt history ranked from least to most embarrassing on your public profile for a day or have your location history summarised in one painfully accurate sentence as your lock screen for a week?
- Would you rather have your weekly screen-time report summarised by a brutally honest AI on the biggest screen you own or have your watch history summarised in one painfully accurate sentence through the loudest speaker nearby?
- Would you rather have your saved posts revealed alongside your reaction time in your family group chat or have your muted accounts summarised in one painfully accurate sentence on your dating profile?
- Would you rather have your camera-roll favourites shown with exact timestamps to everyone at your birthday or have your unfinished drafts displayed before you can edit anything to everyone at the next wedding?
- Would you rather have your last twenty searches turned into a public slideshow until ten people have seen it or have your listening history displayed before you can edit anything until ten people have heard it?
- Would you rather have your deleted messages displayed with no delete button in an email to your family or have your recently deleted photos displayed before you can edit anything in a notification to every contact?
- Would you rather have your purchase history posted without context every Monday morning or have your app subscriptions displayed before you can edit anything every Friday evening?
- Would you rather have your private browser tabs read out in chronological order in front of your whole class or have your location history revealed with the total time spent in front of your whole workplace?
How to use this list
Choose an option before reading anybody else's answer. After the reveal, compare the reasoning behind each side rather than treating the majority as correct. Live totals on eligible question pages are first-party WYR HQ votes.