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They don’t sell your data.

by adrr 3y ago

majormajor 3y ago
They don't sell your data TODAY. Who knows what they'd sell if their business declined for a while and there was a hostile takeover or they otherwise got desperate for new revenue streams. And then if you were paying attention you could make a new one of these requests... but maybe you'd miss it for a bit, and then it would be too late. The law should be based on what you collect instead of what you sell to better protect against this sort of thing.
- adrr 3y ago
  Thats not relevant of what they could do. This laws covers what you are doing and applies to entities selling your data. Big ad players don't sell their data because that is their secret sauce in ad targeting. Companies selling your data are your bank(credit card purchases), mobile carriers(location), your DMV(photos, driving record, misc PII including address, dob etc), state/county government(public records like marriage licenses). Its weird everyone bashes on google and FB for something they don't even do.
noizejoy 3y ago
> They don’t sell your data. ... except when they sell their domain registration business. And yes, I realize that there's a (technical) difference between selling data and selling a business including its data assets. But then again, maybe a really big chunk of the value of that business is its customer data. For some business acquisitions special terminology like "aqui-hiring"[0] has evolved so it's understood that not every sale of a business is of the same nature. And since the value of data has arguably become much higher than ever before, the distinction of selling data by itself and selling the entire business is becoming smaller as time goes on. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring
TrendyCPU 3y ago
This misses the point. The issue is not whether or not Google/Facebook should be classified as data brokers or not. The issue is that they are data collectors who invade our privacy. I want the means to tell companies "Do not collect information on me." And I want that to be enforceable by law.

They don’t sell your data.

by adrr 3y ago

They don’t sell your data.

They don't sell your data TODAY. Who knows what they'd sell if their business declined for a while and there was a hostile takeover or they otherwise got desperate for new revenue streams. And then if you were paying attention you could make a new one of these requests... but maybe you'd miss it for a bit, and then it would be too late. The law should be based on what you collect instead of what you sell to better protect against this sort of thing.

adrr 3y ago
Thats not relevant of what they could do. This laws covers what you are doing and applies to entities selling your data. Big ad players don't sell their data because that is their secret sauce in ad targeting. Companies selling your data are your bank(credit card purchases), mobile carriers(location), your DMV(photos, driving record, misc PII including address, dob etc), state/county government(public records like marriage licenses). Its weird everyone bashes on google and FB for something they don't even do.

noizejoy 3y ago

> They don’t sell your data. ... except when they sell their domain registration business. And yes, I realize that there's a (technical) difference between selling data and selling a business including its data assets. But then again, maybe a really big chunk of the value of that business is its customer data. For some business acquisitions special terminology like "aqui-hiring"[0] has evolved so it's understood that not every sale of a business is of the same nature. And since the value of data has arguably become much higher than ever before, the distinction of selling data by itself and selling the entire business is becoming smaller as time goes on. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring

TrendyCPU 3y ago

This misses the point. The issue is not whether or not Google/Facebook should be classified as data brokers or not. The issue is that they are data collectors who invade our privacy. I want the means to tell companies "Do not collect information on me." And I want that to be enforceable by law.