Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by paulmd on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:39PM (#21020509)

Oh hell no, HN users are largely startup types who are all-in on adtech/tracking tech and metrics for building their businesses.

There is an incessant amount of whining about GDPR for example, and how "confusing" the regulations supposedly are. What it comes down to is many HN denizens are doing things that are explicitly prohibited by these data collection laws and want to continue doing the things that have been outlawed.

As they say, it is difficult to get a man understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by nabnob on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:08PM (#21020787)

Yup agreed. I wanted to see someone spell out why they opposed this law, because it would make it obvious that they have no problems with the horribly unethical things some of these tech companies are doing.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by pnw_hazor on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:16PM (#21020838)

You are well on your way to having this comment pulled. Heaven forbid you cast any blame on those who are building our dark-patterned surveillance dystopia. Note, I have been told on good authority that the pay is good and the work is interesting. And that makes it okay.

Good luck!

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