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The only way to be sure your data isn't used is if it doesn't exist in the first place. Promises of filtering or safeguards or deletion after the fact aren't wo
by mysterydip 3y ago
The only way to be sure your data isn't used is if it doesn't exist in the first place. Promises of filtering or safeguards or deletion after the fact aren't worth the pixels they're displayed on.
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- brookst 3y agoAbsolutism is such a luxury. I miss those days. Most of us have to accept tradeoffs of convenience vs security, privacy vs durability of data, cost vs benefit. And we have to rely on the sometimes erroneous, sometimes fraudulent claims of various companies and people when making tradeoff decisions, knowing they are generally more or less accurate but occasionally totally wrong.
- George83728 3y agoThe "absolutism" of simply not choosing to have Google track you everywhere you go needn't be something you miss. You can have it today, if you want it.
- brookst 3y agoSure, if you scope the problem to Google. How about having nobody track you? No companies, no governments, nobody. What does that look like?
- mysterydip 3y agoI wasn't saying anything about course of action. Everyone has their own weights and values on pros and cons of everything. All I'm saying is once the data genie leaves the bottle, anything could happen to it, regardless of promise or intent. Emails that I sent 20 years ago could still be out there on a drive or tape somewhere, and until every copy of it disappears, it could be used in the future by anyone for anything. Maybe it already has, I wouldn't know. The only way for it not to be used is if I never made it. So instead of dismissing this as naive absolutism, take it as a public service announcement to "think before you use" any service.