Re:PSA: Some Major News Outlets Are Also Sending Data Direct...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:20PM
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> Apparently 10% (I just made this number) of people working in tech industry are working to collect, store, and process personal data
It's probably closer to 100% than 10%; at any rate it's a lot more than 10%.
> It is shocking to see how few of these 10% speak up.
About...what? I mean, I pretty much am the overseer of changes to some specialized public sector medical billing systems that handle on the order of single-digit billions of dollars in annual claim volume and on the order of a million annual individuals. So connecting, storing, and processing personal information is a central part of what those systems do.
But what are you supposing I ought to be speaking up about just because I work on such a system?
It's probably closer to 100% than 10%; at any rate it's a lot more than 10%.
> It is shocking to see how few of these 10% speak up.
About...what? I mean, I pretty much am the overseer of changes to some specialized public sector medical billing systems that handle on the order of single-digit billions of dollars in annual claim volume and on the order of a million annual individuals. So connecting, storing, and processing personal information is a central part of what those systems do.
But what are you supposing I ought to be speaking up about just because I work on such a system?