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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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