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Ay but come on, likening it to stock keeping is a bit disingenious. A company's perfectly entitled to keep track of their stock, and they don't need anything fr
by ghusto 4y ago
Ay but come on, likening it to stock keeping is a bit disingenious. A company's perfectly entitled to keep track of their stock, and they don't need anything from me to do it.
The credit card companies are more like it but I opt out of that game too, by not using them. Their practices are well known to me.
- acdha 4y agoYeah, that’s kind of what I was trying to get at in the second paragraph about the difference in where data is collected. In our hypothetical restaurant example, I think most people’s reactions would depend heavily on what specifically is collected and the granularity: almost nobody cares about someone saying they track what sells best, and only few would even care about their specific combination of items being tallied, but more people care if it can be linked to them in a loyalty program, and still more would care if it was something like an app tracking your attention on the menu. As described, I think the proposed system is more like the second of those four examples but a fair fraction of people are talking like it’s the fourth. To be clear, “what if they extended the scope later?” is a fair question but I do think that needs to be carefully expressed as a significant hypothetical future change from the actual proposal.