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The Dead Internet Theory says most activity on the internet is by bots [1]. The Dead Privacy Theory says approximately all private data is not private; but rath
by nomilk 2y ago
The Dead Internet Theory says most activity on the internet is by bots [1]. The Dead Privacy Theory says approximately all private data is not private; but rather is accessible on whim by any data scientist, SWE, analyst, or db admin with access to the database.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
- htrp 2y ago> The Dead Privacy Theory says approximately all private data is not private; but rather is accessible on whim by any data scientist, SWE, analyst, or db admin with access to the database. I like this so much I'm definitely stealing it!
- bearjaws 2y agoDamn, I've talked about this many times at my last job (startup that went from 100k patients to ~2.5M in 5 years). I love the name Dead Privacy Theory
- mr_toad 2y agoAt least more of that access is logged now. It used to be only the production databases that were properly logged, now it’s more common for every query to be logged, even in dev environments. The next step will be more monitoring of those logs.