U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Personal Data

Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by bentlegen on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:46PM (#36312995)

If you are the majority shareholder and that never changes, then sure.

The parent comment said “every single person in adtech is complicit”.

Most employees do not possess that level of agency about what happens to their work.

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Re:U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Perso... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:03PM (#36313243)

I think your conclusion is countered by something else you wrote:

> As long as you have a database in the cloud with a non-trivial amount of user data, you don’t really have control over what becomes of it.

Who I work for and what I do is the agency. If I want to better influence what happens to my work, I can make sure my work doesn't have this abuse incentive.

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