Re:Personium – personal data store server
by amelius on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:39AM
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There are data brokers -- legally operating companies -- which already collect personal data of entire populations in a central place.
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Re:Personium – personal data store server
by willemlabu on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:42AM
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I understand this, and there's an argument to be made about ethics here.. but, these companies do have a non-trivial amount of work to do to collate the data into profiles. There are also ways of making the attribution of this data to an individual more difficult for these companies.