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Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy by Aerroon on Thursday November 13, 2025 @07:15AM (#45913994)
>The only potential issue is them finding something juicy in someone's chat, that they could publish as a story; and then claiming they found out about this juicy story through other means, (such as a confidential informant)

Which is concerning since this is a news organization that's getting the data.

Let's say they do find some juicy detail and use it, then what? Nothing. It's not like you can ever fix a privacy violation. Nobody involved would get a serious punishment, like prison time, either.

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Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy by freejazz on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:02AM (#45915718)
>Let's say they do find some juicy detail and use it, then what? Nothing. It's not like you can ever fix a privacy violation. Nobody involved would get a serious punishment, like prison time, either.

There are no privacy violations. OpenAI already told the court they anonymized it. What they say in court and what they say in the blog is different and so many people here are (unfortunately) falling for it!

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Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy by Aerroon on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:49AM (#45924536)
There's no such thing. Anonymized data can still be used to identify someone as we've seen on numerous occasions.
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Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy by freejazz on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:40PM (#45930245)
Read the ToS next time
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