Google/Big Data/Advertisers/NSA/MI6 will never forget though ;)
It’s scary to think faceless corporations may often know more about yourself than you, your family, and even closest friends.
Reminds me of a story of Target sending adverts for baby items to a teenager which accurately predicated she was pregnant before she was even aware [1]
It’s all (unencrypted comms, texts, social media, osint, …) archived in massive data centers just waiting to be analyzed.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2024/08/30/con...?
Given that the big advertisers have collectively decided to show me both dick pills and breast surgery and sanitary pads, and lawyers specialising in renouncing a citizenship I never had for tax purposes for people residing in a country I don't live in, and several other equally stupid examples, I now think such examples were as much over-selling as most of the claims Musk has made about FSD.
Only time I've seen an advertisement for something relevant to me, I already had it.
Enough of an outlier they can't figure out my gender, and get the country I live in wrong while showing me the ad? That's a pretty dramatic failure.
Here is a gift link a NYTimes article with more details: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
I'm quite happy with this. I don't need my stuff correlated. When friends and family die I miss them, but I don't go around snooping through the things they may have left behind, that feels disrespectful. If they wanted me to know about their WoW accomplishments, they would have told me about them.
That's not necessarily at all. I could build a rough version in a week. It shouldn't take anyone much effort to imagine that there are all types of situations and broken relationships that could take significantly longer to repair.
> Are you neuroatypical maybe? Maybe it's just not in you to share like that (it's not in me).
This really has nothing to do with being neurotypical or neurodiverse. There might be some generalizations and correlations there, but really it's just about personality and lived experiences and situations.
...but then such a service gets monetised by advertising, financed with VC money and guess what happens next...
Kidding.
But seriously, there is just a timeout you can configure - if you don't login for 3/6/12 months or whatever it triggers. You can grant login access too.
My parents don't know me very well, a lot of people don't, and I've always been a very private person. I've also been through a lot, written a lot about that and other things, but it's all across various profiles.
I know if something happened to me my parents would probably like to read it to have a better idea of who I was, to maybe be able to feel closer to me or hear more of my voice.
But this data is all across various profiles that would just be forgotten.
I want to make something that allows for importing data from all these various sources, presenting an interface to parse and peruse it, and making it available only after someone has died to certain named people.
Something like this will need to be standardized at some point as so much of our lives becomes increasingly digital.