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Re:Why we should end the data economy by virtue3 on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:14PM (#27396908)
But how would you trust any company to properly respect who you share stuff with? There's a multitude of anti-patterns that make some things public already with social media.

I think we should all be looking at this as either they're getting -all- of your data and sharing it with -everyone- (because that means more $$$) or they're NOT getting your data and they CANT share it cuz they don't have it.

We cannot trust companies to respect our privacy because it goes against their core value of turning a profit.

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Re:Why we should end the data economy by philosopher1234 on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:16PM (#27396946)
turning a profit depends to some extent on our trust, so we can expect companies to do some good for us too
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Re:Why we should end the data economy by virtue3 on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:29PM (#27397181)
Either they sell the data, or they keep it protected as a fuck you to google (aka apple) or they potentially get a data leak because they aren't following best practices in the slightest (aka Experian).

I remember being out of college and finally being able to buy adobe products to do photography and then Adobe got hacked and my un/pw was out in the wild. It was safer to pirate their stuff and trust some crazy keygen software that's definitely doing something nefarious cuz at least I could run that in a VM.

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