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Sometimes I feel like a paranoid weirdo emailing companies to delete my information. Sometimes I'll even have to be a bit forceful and put pressure on them. But
by c7DJTLrn 5y ago
Sometimes I feel like a paranoid weirdo emailing companies to delete my information. Sometimes I'll even have to be a bit forceful and put pressure on them. But when even the big guys like Volkswagen can't properly protect PII, how can a little online shop?
- pjerem 5y agoI’m not sure that size matters. I think what matters is if the company cares about protecting your data and why it’s needed. I don’t even think it’s difficult to protect the data of your customers. Sure, being immune to any targeted attack is really hard, but not being an easy prey is just about caring a minimum about your responsibilities and thinking about what should go where. From my experience, when marketing department enters the game, that’s when it becomes hard because they just don’t care about the data they hold. It’s just random excel files and numbers that they work with.
- kabes 5y agoIn big companies this data tends to be spread around in tens of databases managed by a lot of different teams spread across the globe. And they're a big target for hackers. I'd rather trust the little online shop using some off-the-shelf webshop solution.