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> it seems like we ought to be able to prohibit at least the covert sale of customer data without going full GDPR. The only effect this will have is making the
by einpoklum 6y ago
> it seems like we ought to be able to prohibit at least the covert sale of customer data without going full GDPR.
The only effect this will have is making the sale of your data more overt rather than covert.
- throwaway894345 6y agoThat seems strictly better to me. If I know that one phone manufacturer sells my data and another doesn't, that makes my choice pretty easily. Presently I want to buy a TV, but I really can't tell which if any manufacturers aren't selling my data.
- einpoklum 6y ago> If I know that one phone manufacturer sells my data and another doesn't, that makes my choice pretty easily. Well if you know your telecommunications services provider sells your data and the only other one also does it (if there even is a second one), that also makes your choice pretty easy - albeit in a null kind of way.
- throwaway894345 6y agoSounds like a market opportunity. Someone gets to be the brand that doesn’t have the “Sells your data” warning sticker on the box, and there are enough people who care about this that Apple is marketing itself as a privacy focused company.
- einpoklum 6y agoI don't know the US telco situation well enough, but I would assume either it is not profitable enough to provide this service, or the physical infrastructure is private, and it is prohibitively expensive and socially-wasteful to install parallel infrastructure.