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Lol, that’s Larry’s marketing material. Database = store shelves. Likewise Safeway has thousands of products on its shelves - they don’t make any of them, not e

Lol, that’s Larry’s marketing material. Database = store shelves. Likewise Safeway has thousands of products on its shelves - they don’t make any of them, not even the ones with their brand on.

hedora 4y ago
So, the defense is that he's lying about having access to illegal goods, but selling them anyway. I went down to Safeway yesterday, and bought a kilo of cocaine. It turns out it was ground up sudafed and talcum powder. The cops were like "lolz. that's all on you; it's just how they market these days".
- jahewson 4y ago
  Huh? He’s just a CEO talking-up his product. Safeway has exclusive deals nowhere else has! Kind of… it’s marketing spin but it’s not a lie. Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal, but it would be useless as behavioural data ages-out after 90 days or less.
  - hedora 4y ago
    His definitely illegal product, based on the long list of violated laws in the article.
    - jahewson 4y ago
      Well, no that’s for the court to decide. And it’s a civil suit so no illegality here. This suit takes a very creative interpretation of California privacy law, let’s look at one representative cause for action: > Oracle also collects minute details about Plaintiffs’ and Class Members’ offline activities, including their brick-and-mortar purchases and location information. By its very nature, Plaintiffs and Class members cannot be aware of or consent to this conduct. This is exactly what I mean by suing Safeway because of a problem with Cheeze-Its. Aptly in this example the actual entity collecting and selling your data could be a grocery store - That’s who you should sue if you’re bothered by, you know, them selling your data.
  - 3np 4y ago
    > Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal Pardon?

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Lol, that’s Larry’s marketing material. Database = store shelves. Likewise Safeway has thousands of products on its shelves - they don’t make any of them, not e

by jahewson 4y ago

Lol, that’s Larry’s marketing material. Database = store shelves. Likewise Safeway has thousands of products on its shelves - they don’t make any of them, not even the ones with their brand on.

hedora 4y ago
So, the defense is that he's lying about having access to illegal goods, but selling them anyway. I went down to Safeway yesterday, and bought a kilo of cocaine. It turns out it was ground up sudafed and talcum powder. The cops were like "lolz. that's all on you; it's just how they market these days".
- jahewson 4y ago
  Huh? He’s just a CEO talking-up his product. Safeway has exclusive deals nowhere else has! Kind of… it’s marketing spin but it’s not a lie. Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal, but it would be useless as behavioural data ages-out after 90 days or less.
  - hedora 4y ago
    His definitely illegal product, based on the long list of violated laws in the article.
    - jahewson 4y ago
      Well, no that’s for the court to decide. And it’s a civil suit so no illegality here. This suit takes a very creative interpretation of California privacy law, let’s look at one representative cause for action: > Oracle also collects minute details about Plaintiffs’ and Class Members’ offline activities, including their brick-and-mortar purchases and location information. By its very nature, Plaintiffs and Class members cannot be aware of or consent to this conduct. This is exactly what I mean by suing Safeway because of a problem with Cheeze-Its. Aptly in this example the actual entity collecting and selling your data could be a grocery store - That’s who you should sue if you’re bothered by, you know, them selling your data.
  - 3np 4y ago
    > Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal Pardon?