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Technically they haven't made your personal information available publicly. It was already public if Google managed to get their hands on it. They've just made
by Teandw 4y ago
Technically they haven't made your personal information available publicly. It was already public if Google managed to get their hands on it. They've just made it easier to find.
- reaperducer 4y agoGoogle buys 90% of credit card transactions. That's not public information. And the only way to opt out of it is to not use credit cards.
- DaltonCoffee 4y agoDo they publicly index this information tho?
- reaperducer 4y agoDoes it matter? Is it somehow OK for someone to build a dossier on another person as long as they use that information for their own purposes?
- Teandw 4y agoWell, yes. Because you're talking about a different scenario than what is going on here.
- alar44 4y agoYes? Are you telling me I can't know things about people?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoYou won't get your mitts on their video rental records. We need another embarrassing data breach to get more protections.
- dylan604 4y agoIs this still true? Nobody goes to Blockbuster to rent videos. Videos are streamed to you on a plethora of devices. Does the video rental regulations apply to YouTube sharing your video selections? PornHub? Netflix?
- KennyBlanken 4y ago> Google buys 90% of credit card transactions. Source, please.
- lupire 4y agoBloomberg reported (paywall) and the web plagiarized: https://www.google.com/search?q=Google%20buys%2090%25%20of%20credit%20card%20transactions https://www.google.com/search?q=Google%20buys%2090%25%20of%2... The "90%" might not be easily sourced, but also not the crux.
- lupire 4y agoIt is not free as in gratis, but it is publivally available, just as tomatoes are publicly available at stores.
- munk-a 4y agoThere isn't a material difference between those two things. What precisely is private information - outside of information stored solely inside your head. Even medical records can be made public through certain actions so pretty much everything is potentially public information. Making things easier to find can be a threat - it's why there's a lot of compelling discussion around websites that take rosters of arrest records and post them on big scary websites along with pictures and lurid descriptions of the person's crime - offering to remove the information for a fee.
- Teandw 4y agoMaking things easier to find can be a threat, yes. I guess that's why they're moving towards allowing things like this to be removed.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoFascinating, isn't it, that linking to a movie or cracked software is something they have to stop linking to upon request no questions asked by law, but if your personal information or financial information or login credentials are posted somewhere, you gotta prove you'd be harassed... The US needs a GDPR-equivalent law.