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Makes me think that data should be treated differently in the case of a potential new owner, allowing users to opt-out from their data from being transferred; y
by loceng 9y ago
Makes me think that data should be treated differently in the case of a potential new owner, allowing users to opt-out from their data from being transferred; you may trust the leadership and governance, and may not trust whomever takes over or who will newly has access to the data.
- kayfox 9y agoYou can delete the data from your profile.
- jacquesm 9y agoCorrection: you can mark it as deleted.
- bognition 9y agolol, that means nothing. It most likely means that data is marked as deleted but the original values are retained.
- kayfox 9y agoWell, you could also just not fill it out in the first place. To be clear, this is public profile information displayed to any user of the Grindr app.
- hluska 9y agoExcept that if a user fills in a Grindr profile, they believe they are only sharing information with Grindr/its users. The truth is that they share all of the information (in less than secure ways) with a variety of third parties and fail to disclose that fact. That's illegal in many countries (including mine) and it demonstrates an unbelievable lack of regard for user privacy or safety.
- jacquesm 9y agoNot only does it get shared, it gets shared in bulk. That's a huge difference between the intended use and what actually happens.
- chimeracoder 9y ago> That's illegal in many countries (including mine) and it demonstrates an unbelievable lack of regard for user privacy or safety. There's a very strong chance that this is illegal in many states in the US as well (not sure about federal law).
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- moate 9y agoDo you have any idea how hard/illegal it is to hack into those servers and manually delete every file relating to JUST your profile without alerting an admin?
- jacquesm 9y agoChange of control is a huge problem when it comes to privacy sensitive data. That's also a big factor in why I have a problem with governments collecting data. You may trust the present day administration (or not...), but who knows what a future administration (or occupying force) is going to be up to (beside the obvious risk of a leak or a breach). The same goes for situations like bankruptcies and 'bad leavers', there is absolutely no way short of airtight procedures and implementations to guard your privacy over the length the data resides with some company. And for most companies that means 'forever' so even the smallest chances tend to sooner or later materialize. In almost every company that I've looked at over the last couple of years (including medical, fintech and so on) there was always at least one person and usually more that had unfettered access to all the data, either in bulk or through some convenient interface. I'm not even sure this can be fixed anymore, but I am also not going to give up.
- seszett 9y ago> That's also a big factor in why I have a problem with governments collecting data. You may trust the present day administration (or not...), but who knows what a future administration (or occupying force) is going to be up to The standard example is how the Netherlands were rather religiously tolerant, but used to keep track of Jews for tax collection purposes before WW2. Then when the Nazis arrived, they had all the records they needed to achieve their goals. Who knows what will happen in the future, and how currently harmless data could be used by new actors then.
- jacquesm 9y ago> The standard example is how the Netherlands were rather religiously tolerant, but used to keep track of Jews for tax collection purposes before WW2. I wrote about that exact example: https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide
- weaksauce 9y agoWhy did they keep those records? Different tax rates for different religions? Seems like none of their business.
- rmc 9y agoEU's data protection law covers this.
- loceng 9y agoIf so, that's great.