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Exactly that. I consider myself relatively tech savvy, but when - thanks to the GDPR - that hive of scum and tracking that underpins the modern internet was re
by CaptainZapp 8y ago
Exactly that.
I consider myself relatively tech savvy, but when - thanks to the GDPR - that hive of scum and tracking that underpins the modern internet was revealed I was really shocked.
Clicking one of those "manage your cookies" links is a truly enlightening experience.
How should Average Q User even begin to grasp the implications of this fucking datasucking hydra?
I was glad having "deleted" my Facebook account some 4 years ago.
Man, I didn't no 10% of the shit that's really going on.
- specialist 8y agoAs a fellow geek, of course I was aware of the potential abuse. Being party to conversations with C-level sociopaths is what really brings it home. One example: One employer railed at the injustice (loss of profit) of not being able to share the millions of patient's medical records we'd accumulated with Big Pharma's marketing machine. This employer spent considerable effort trying to figure out how to work around the law (eg plausibly deniable anonymization).