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Re:Google is watching by brettgriffin on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:22PM (#44945916)
What I find interesting about this article is that the author is the founder of Cloudera. Cloudera was one of the pioneers of the Hadoop ecosystem (and de facto data lake movements).

For the uninitiated, data lakes are used to centralize vast quantities of data - often consumer data - usually by large organizations and governments to provide insights and inform decisions within the organization. Some call this surveillance capitalism.

Cloudera IPO'd somewhere around $2B and was taken private in a deal led by KKR for around $5B.

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Re:Google is watching by FuckButtons on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:36PM (#44946035)
Other than possibly loosing social capital, why does this surprise you? they are intimately familiar with the intricacies of how the technology is used to hoard and catalogue every aspect of our digital lives.
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Re:Google is watching by esafak on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:34PM (#44946016)
Good catch! Cloudera did not last long and grow enough to suffer the same problem.
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