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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by jredwards on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:41PM (#21020528)
The reason there are so many wonderful services available for free is because they make money selling your data. If the service is free, the product is you.

For many, many people, that is _fine_.

The real issue I see here is how this law is written and how we're interpreting it. If the law makes it so that people who want to opt out of free internet services because of privacy concerns are free to do so, then we're all good. If the law is written such that people who want to avail themselves of free services in exchange for their data are no longer able to do so because that business model is broken, then I see a lot of problems.

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by mfer on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:53PM (#21020654)
> For many, many people, that is _fine_.

I would argue this isn't the case. For many people it is out of sight and out of mind. They don't realize what's happening.

I came to this conclusion after talking with people about it. Numerous people didn't believe it. I had to show people documents and articles for them to believe me. Most of the people I've spoken with do not like this behavior and would rather not use a service or pay for it if they had known.

The average person is unaware. That does not make it ok.

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by 1000units on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:17PM (#21020851)
I like that the webshit data robbers downvote me for saying what they're doing is evil, yet if I showed any particular one what kind of information I have access to about them, just as a random private citizen interested in these things, they'd freak out and call me a creep. It's a shame what money does to people.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by cameronbrown on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:24PM (#21022116)
> yet if I showed any particular one what kind of information I have access to about them

This is where the line is drawn for most - if people from Facebook, Amazon or Google look at information other than machines. Totally fine if it's just a computer with a strong law like GDPR safeguarding it.

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by 1000units on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:50AM (#21023635)
People are looking.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by cameronbrown on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:08PM (#21028234)
Maybe. I'm just saying this is where expectations lie - including my own. Maybe I'm naive, I don't know.

From my conversations with Googlers at least, it does seem they're extremely careful about insider threats.

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by emiliobumachar on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:39AM (#21025156)
Not that I'm doubting you, but could you please provide sources?
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by 1000units on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:13PM (#21029005)
I will not. This is both common knowledge and common sense.

You can easily find articles about sufficiently low-level drones getting fired from Facebook for snooping if this is an authentic query.

If you have trusted friends in tech, you can ask them even better.

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by matz1 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:14PM (#21021276)
Is what people say is what people actually going to do ?
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by briandear on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:24AM (#21024024)
> The average person is unaware. That does not make it ok.

Any actual data other than anecdotes?

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by 1000units on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:46PM (#21020581)
The problem is these services are scams. If people understood what they were doing they wouldn't trade their data for $5/month.

If your business can't survive by charging a fair price for the service it provides without stealing data, then it shouldn't exist.