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I hope they were not and this data ends up public. I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish th

I hope they were not and this data ends up public. I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them.

macintux 8y ago
> I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them. Who defines "privacy-violating"? Jumping into the mud because you feel aggrieved just makes you look like a pig.
- Rjevski 8y ago
  Facebook? Equifax? Ad networks? Basically anyone who profits off user data and makes it difficult/impossible to opt-out.
  - astura 8y ago
    This is pretty silly, you're going to publish something everyone already knows? What do you think that's going to accomplish? Most of these companies are publicly traded and finding top people in the private companies is just a Google search away. This business is all done out in the open. You can even force the companies subjected to the FCRA[1] to give you a report on exactly what they have on you. [1] They are subject to the FCRA if the data is sold to companies who make use of it in credit, employment, and housing decisions.
    - jacquesm 8y ago
      It's not all that silly actually. Politicians and corporate CEOs make the decision but rarely are on the receiving end of the fall-out. By concentrating on them and by distilling out that information from a much larger body of data enough of an embarrassment could be put together that they might start to pay attention. As long as all those needles are safe in the haystack they can be ignored, a stack of needles on the other hand is not so easily ignored.
    - Rjevski 8y ago
      I wasn't talking about business-related data - that is indeed public already. I'm talking about revealing the same kind of data their companies collect on us, which is way more personal and could contain embarrassing stuff.
- mikec3010 8y ago
  It's not mud if you send them an email from a donotreply address saying "my privacy policy has changed, and now I will freely publish your previously private data"

I hope they were not and this data ends up public. I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them.

macintux 8y ago

> I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them. Who defines "privacy-violating"? Jumping into the mud because you feel aggrieved just makes you look like a pig.

Rjevski 8y ago
Facebook? Equifax? Ad networks? Basically anyone who profits off user data and makes it difficult/impossible to opt-out.
- astura 8y ago
  This is pretty silly, you're going to publish something everyone already knows? What do you think that's going to accomplish? Most of these companies are publicly traded and finding top people in the private companies is just a Google search away. This business is all done out in the open. You can even force the companies subjected to the FCRA[1] to give you a report on exactly what they have on you. [1] They are subject to the FCRA if the data is sold to companies who make use of it in credit, employment, and housing decisions.
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    It's not all that silly actually. Politicians and corporate CEOs make the decision but rarely are on the receiving end of the fall-out. By concentrating on them and by distilling out that information from a much larger body of data enough of an embarrassment could be put together that they might start to pay attention. As long as all those needles are safe in the haystack they can be ignored, a stack of needles on the other hand is not so easily ignored.
  - Rjevski 8y ago
    I wasn't talking about business-related data - that is indeed public already. I'm talking about revealing the same kind of data their companies collect on us, which is way more personal and could contain embarrassing stuff.
mikec3010 8y ago
It's not mud if you send them an email from a donotreply address saying "my privacy policy has changed, and now I will freely publish your previously private data"