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This is the wild west of information rape I guess. Companies buy companies who buy other companies. As an average customer you just don't know who has what inte

by nojvek 10y ago

This is the wild west of information rape I guess. Companies buy companies who buy other companies. As an average customer you just don't know who has what interests and where your info is getting used. Even companies that started with noble goals like whatsapp ended up selling out to Facebook troves of private info. The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up because people think they have nothing to hide. I predict the next generation terrorism in the digital form

a3n 10y ago
> The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up ... ... that affects lawmakers and/or exposes national security secrets. I imagine there's a lot of clandestine spending that can be correlated and will eventually bubble up inadvertently.
- skj 10y ago
  But the Goldmans of the world know better than to mess with it.
- tomohawk 10y ago
  Like this one? http://www.computerworld.com/article/2941754/data-security/opm-the-worst-hack-of-all-time.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2941754/data-security/o...
jacquesm 10y ago
> The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up because people think they have nothing to hide. We already had that one and it does not seem to make much difference.