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Re:Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL vi... by freedomben on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:29PM (#40988198)
Certainly not by accident. It takes intentional effort to collect any data, let alone data like this where you have to really scrape. This is in my opinion exactly what the tech industry is all about these days. I generally favor a light touch with regulation, but the US desperately needs some privacy laws because this industry is absolutely out of control
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Re:Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL vi... by ghayes on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:51PM (#40988471)
I'd generally say that disclosure should be enough (and is currently insufficient in the US outside of California), but I am weary that much of your life now involves "Pay us with Venmo" or "Customer service via Twitter," such that one cannot really opt-out without paying a significant cost.
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Re:Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL vi... by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:17PM (#40991945)
It’s not all bad: Venmo gives you payment/fraud protection; Twitter is a public forum so at least if anything goes wrong you’ll be a viral star of some kind.

I draw the line at companies/orgs using Discord for anything.

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Re:Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL vi... by YurgenJurgensen on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:26AM (#40993297)
Have you tried reading Tweets while not signed-in in the last year? Twitter is not a public forum any more. And it shows that these companies will alter the deal whenever it happens to serve their interests.
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Re:Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL vi... by freedomben on Thursday July 18, 2024 @09:42AM (#40995508)
"pray I don't alter it further"
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Re:Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL vi... by bilbo0s on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @02:05PM (#40988618)
Problem is if our congress were to make laws they would make tough on terrorist laws to compel collection and storage of data for the good guys to get the bad guys easier.

We all seem to forget that the patriot act passed 99 to 1. Whereupon…

We promptly got rid of the 1.

We have bad leaders. Look at our Presidential candidates. We won’t get better outcomes until that condition changes.

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