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Re:Ask HN: What do you do for online privacy? by raspyberr on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:58AM (#33559644)
>inactions of years past

Completely untrue. Data becomes less valuable as time goes on to the point that it becomes worthless.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do for online privacy? by shmoejoe on Friday November 11, 2022 @07:05AM (#33559725)
Does it? Even old data could be used to build a psychological profile on someone and be extrapolated to present day if I dropped off the map
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Re:Ask HN: What do you do for online privacy? by ataru on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:26AM (#33560564)
It is valuable, you can tell because companies like Google and Facebook have no intention to automatically forget old data, instead they are intent on keeping it forever. I expect they see data=money.
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