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> The question was "why care?" And the answer is "wake me up when those things start happening." I can imagine all sorts of even worse things being done with m

• sfink 2mo ago
  Then wake up, they're happening. Police stalking women with Flock camera data. Period/pregnancy data used by ex- and current boyfriends or law enforcement. Near Intelligence designed Planned Parenthood as a trackable brand, enabling location-based targeted harassment of those who visited a clinic. (Or more innocuous data leading to the same thing, as with Target predicting a pregnancy and revealing it.) Telecom location data used for roadside assistance -- as well as bounty hunters, stalkers, and bail bond companies. Grindr sharing HIV status. Cambridge Analytica. Avast selling browser histories, and buyers de-anonymizing it. (That data ended up all over; I haven't looked to see what explicit harms it caused.) Equifax data being used for identity theft. What exactly needs to happen for it to be a concern? Personally, no, there's nothing too bothersome to me about McDonald's having my purchase history. But I don't want anyone else to have it, and since nobody seems to be able to successfully prevent exfiltration, then actually I don't want McDonald's to have it (or store it, at least, and associate it with me). Oh, and I'd prefer restaurants to compete for my business on the basis of their food, not their IT departments.
  • HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
    Let's at least try to compare apples to apples and not stretch the scope.