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> The abuses of the companies you never hear about are orders of magnitude worse. > They are plugged into every institution of society you interact with in you
by drdec 4y ago
> The abuses of the companies you never hear about are orders of magnitude worse.
> They are plugged into every institution of society you interact with in your daily life, so you essentially can't opt out, and their primary business model is siphoning off sensitive de-anonymized personal data and selling it to anybody willing to pay.
This would be much more impactful if you named one of these companies and gave some concrete examples of what they are doing.
- caconym_ 4y agoFor a start, you should probably read OP's article. I know often HN commenters don't read the article before commenting, and I'm sometimes guilty of this myself, but in this case the linked article offers fairly important context for my comment in the sense that it explicitly names at least one such company and gives concrete examples of what they are doing with your data. For another salient example, check out this article^[1] about cell carriers selling their customers' real-time location data without consent. ^[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/fcc-issues-wrist-slap-fines-to-carriers-that-sold-your-phone-location-data/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/fcc-issues-wrist...