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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by jsnell on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:43PM (#33512135)
Even if we assume that the OP is telling exactly what happened rather than exaggerating (stories do tend to grow in the telling over 8 years), we don't actually know that this alleged data selling happened. All he knows is that somebody at a telco with an interest in getting Twitter's data claimed that the telco got more data from other companies. What other companies? No details. What data? No details. Was the guy from the telco telling the truth, or lying since that furthered their agenda? We have no way of judging that, and neither did the OP.

Spamming this submission with that hook (rather than the parts that the OP had actual direct knowledge of) is basically just spreading misinformation.

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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:23PM (#33512691)
It's also, at best, a claim made by a (presumably non-technical) employee of one of these Big Tech companies' clients. It's entirely possible that they were able to benefit from the data that Google, Facebook, whatever collects while not having direct access to it in any form.
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