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It seems like they owe us all compensatory damages. Big damages. I never really understood how they could take my information, which presumably belongs to me,

It seems like they owe us all compensatory damages. Big damages. I never really understood how they could take my information, which presumably belongs to me, and then could use it to make millions. How about my cut?

fsckboy 4y ago
Your information has never been presumed to belong to you, and you have never presumed that information you had about other people did not belong to you. Have you ever kept track of information about other people and felt compelled to notify them and potentially send them money? Like when you were in first grade and wrote down a list of "people i hate" or "who to invite to my birthday party"? Or when you got older and were getting petitions signed? Or maintaining lists of who do deliver to and collect money from on your paper route? It's actually an important freedom to be allowed to learn things about other people and to write them down, and share your thoughts with other people. I'm not saying that I'm happy about the current state of affairs where we are spied on and sold and resold, but I just wanted to clarify that it's not so simple as you make it out to be that each person owns all information about themselves.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  << Your information has never been presumed to belong to you, and you have never presumed that information you had about other people did not belong to you. Have you ever kept track of information about other people and felt compelled to notify them and potentially send them money? It is an accurate take. The problem starts when the gathering becomes an industrial level process and start charging money for it. I am almost at a point, where I pray for a Target level breach that somehow involves the 3 bureaus. Maybe then other entities start suing one another over fallout. Until then it is just 'swy'.

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It seems like they owe us all compensatory damages. Big damages. I never really understood how they could take my information, which presumably belongs to me,

by jimhefferon 4y ago

fsckboy 4y ago
Your information has never been presumed to belong to you, and you have never presumed that information you had about other people did not belong to you. Have you ever kept track of information about other people and felt compelled to notify them and potentially send them money? Like when you were in first grade and wrote down a list of "people i hate" or "who to invite to my birthday party"? Or when you got older and were getting petitions signed? Or maintaining lists of who do deliver to and collect money from on your paper route? It's actually an important freedom to be allowed to learn things about other people and to write them down, and share your thoughts with other people. I'm not saying that I'm happy about the current state of affairs where we are spied on and sold and resold, but I just wanted to clarify that it's not so simple as you make it out to be that each person owns all information about themselves.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  << Your information has never been presumed to belong to you, and you have never presumed that information you had about other people did not belong to you. Have you ever kept track of information about other people and felt compelled to notify them and potentially send them money? It is an accurate take. The problem starts when the gathering becomes an industrial level process and start charging money for it. I am almost at a point, where I pray for a Target level breach that somehow involves the 3 bureaus. Maybe then other entities start suing one another over fallout. Until then it is just 'swy'.