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"Mozilla partners with a company called Onerep to perform these scans and subsequent takedown requests" Reputation companies have perverse incentives and often
by Siberium 3y ago
"Mozilla partners with a company called Onerep to perform these scans and subsequent takedown requests"
Reputation companies have perverse incentives and often need to pay off offending privacy-invading sites - see https://thewalrus.ca/clean-online-reputation/ https://thewalrus.ca/clean-online-reputation/.
You'd be essentially funding this continued privacy invasion of individuals - even if this service is successful for yourself.
That's a lucrative product for a for-profit company to offer, but seems like a poor fit for the parent foundation's goals of creating a more privacy-respecting internet on a systemic level (rather than just for a few paying customers).
- pquki4 3y agoToo bad I don't live in Europe, what can I do? (shrug)
- imhoguy 3y agoUnfortunately, while living in EU/UK, you have no means to force US company to wipe your personal data unless it officially does business in Europe.
- nottorp 3y agoYep. If it were a service done by Mozilla I could trust it. But this way, what is it besides a referral program for some company I've never heard of? Plus the 'It's just a Starbucks latte' pricing...