Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

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.

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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.

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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.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by 1000units on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:50AM (#21023635)

People are looking.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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 ?

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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?

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