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It's like DMV records being public. You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person. But if it's avai
by a3n 10y ago
It's like DMV records being public. You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person.
But if it's available on the internet, it becomes a different thing entirely. Rather than being track-downable for specific purposes, you become harvestable for mass purposes.
Merely being known is sometimes the first step in being victimized, and these kinds of things make being known easier and more frequent.
- username223 10y ago> You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person. Exactly. If $INTERNET_DATA_HARVESTER had to pay someone to watch whenever it wanted to see what I did on the internet, it would cost them a lot of money, so they would only watch if they had a reasonable suspicion of profit. Even at starvation wages of $2/day, that's $700/yr/person, which would bankrupt the major data harvesters. Even if Facebook only paid each starving person to stumble over to the DMV one day a year, it would cost them $42 billion to monitor their users.