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A prospective employer could buy the information about your alcohol use and decide not to hire you. An opponent in a lawsuit could use it to show you have a pat
by hughw 6y ago
A prospective employer could buy the information about your alcohol use and decide not to hire you. An opponent in a lawsuit could use it to show you have a pattern of heavy alcohol use that caused you to be negligent. When you run for office in 10 years the other party will run attack ads against you using the information. Need I go on?
- gverrilla 6y agoI can be reselling alcohol? I maybe run a dorm. Or a private club. Or I buy a lot of beer for my trendy startup employee. Or I'm a religioous fundamentalist buying alcohol to toss it in bulk into the ocean because alcohol is Satan. Etc. This data ain't reliable at all. Also, people are already giving this info for free most of the time on social media. And it's not even a matter of fighting Google, or facebook, or amazon. This is going on all over the internet, and if they take down facebook something new will come up. If anything, I think employment system, judicial system, political system and others will have to develop and fundamentally change. It's not like 'privacy' is the only matter the whole social complex is facing, at all. Heavy alcohol abuse is not a crime, it's connected to serious collective mental health issues. This is one of the problems that deserve real attention, for instance.