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> How does someone weaponize your information Show baby diapers ads because Google knows I'm pregnant. Increase the price of baby furnitures because Amazon kno

by rakoo 3y ago

> How does someone weaponize your information Show baby diapers ads because Google knows I'm pregnant. Increase the price of baby furnitures because Amazon knows I'm pregnant. Decline a job interview because LinkedIn knows I'm alcoholic. Tell me what parties I might be interested in because Facebook knows I have cancer. Refuse a ride because Uber knows I'm not vaccinated. None of this situations is far fetched, and none of those situations is something positive. Companies only care about profits, not the betterment of society as you seem to believe. I am very happy there is no way for them to know more than they need about my private life. > my business life and online there have been zero consequences to this. because those laws were in place. Do you believe companies have been behaving nicely because they care about you ?

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VancouverMan 3y ago
> Refuse a ride because Uber knows I'm not vaccinated. > None of this situations is far fetched, and none of those situations is something positive. Not only is that type of a situation not far fetched, it was the reality throughout Canada as recently as 2021 and 2022. "Also effective October 30, travellers departing from Canadian airports, and travellers on VIA Rail and Rocky Mountaineer trains, will be required to be fully vaccinated in order to travel." https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/10/mandatory-covid-19-vaccination-requirements-for-federally-regulated-transportation-employees-and-travellers.html https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/10/manda... Given Canada's large geographic area, access to domestic air and rail travel is extremely important. That type of unjustifiable discrimination also applied to other services/venues/events, too, such as restaurants. What's even more nonsensical is how those policies remained in place even when it was blatantly obvious that the so-called "vaccines" involved didn't seem to prevent infection and didn't seem to prevent transmission, even among the so-called "fully vaccinated". The very negative social and economic consequences of those awful policies far outweighed the non-existent "benefits". If some good did come out of this, it's that at least a larger segment of the Canadian population realizes the importance of privacy, especially of medical records.

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VancouverMan 3y ago

> Refuse a ride because Uber knows I'm not vaccinated. > None of this situations is far fetched, and none of those situations is something positive. Not only is that type of a situation not far fetched, it was the reality throughout Canada as recently as 2021 and 2022. "Also effective October 30, travellers departing from Canadian airports, and travellers on VIA Rail and Rocky Mountaineer trains, will be required to be fully vaccinated in order to travel." https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/10/mandatory-covid-19-vaccination-requirements-for-federally-regulated-transportation-employees-and-travellers.html https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/10/manda... Given Canada's large geographic area, access to domestic air and rail travel is extremely important. That type of unjustifiable discrimination also applied to other services/venues/events, too, such as restaurants. What's even more nonsensical is how those policies remained in place even when it was blatantly obvious that the so-called "vaccines" involved didn't seem to prevent infection and didn't seem to prevent transmission, even among the so-called "fully vaccinated". The very negative social and economic consequences of those awful policies far outweighed the non-existent "benefits". If some good did come out of this, it's that at least a larger segment of the Canadian population realizes the importance of privacy, especially of medical records.