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About twenty years ago, I was taking a flight back from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the US. In the middle of the night the pilot got on the loudspeaker and said "
by xrd 2mo ago
About twenty years ago, I was taking a flight back from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the US. In the middle of the night the pilot got on the loudspeaker and said "hi! Having some engine trouble, so we are landing in Manaus."
Manaus is in the middle of the Amazon.
Needless to say, a bit scary to hear that, but we landed without issue.
They told us we had two choices: the nice hotel with a shared room, or the lesser nice hotel with no roommate. I chose the latter. When we go there, they said, "oops, sorry, short on rooms!" So I had a roommate.
Wandered around Manaus, took a skiff out on the Rio Negro. Saw pink river dolphins. A little boat approached us and a kid handed me a sloth, and then demanded I return it with a twenty dollar bill.
The airline got us another plane 24 hours later. Made it back to the US safely.
A few weeks later, the airline reached out and said "Here is $100 for your trouble."
I declined to take that offer. I had missed several business meetings that cost me actual money. I couldn't donate blood for years because I had been to the Amazon and was tagged a malaria risk.
During the many arguments with the airline I threatened to take them to small claims court.
I got a really strange response over email which I clearly wasn't supposed to see. A representative from that airline was asking internally if they could put me on the no-fly list. That was really chilling.
But, this is the kind of information I'm worried about when a vendor sells my data. If Google wanted to sell a product to the airlines that offered to keep annoying people like me from purchasing flights, they could do that with that email chain. I'm skeptical it'll be wiped correctly. Isn't my poor writing style basically my signature? How do you wipe that?
- PaywallBuster 2mo agoyour personal site SSL cert expired 10 days ago btw
- xrd 2mo agoDoh, thanks!
- vsviridov 2mo agoUptimeKuma is self-hosted and can monitor SSL expiry...
- dwedge 2mo agoI love the irony of you checking them out for more information in response to a comment of them being worried about who reads their data. Nothing wrong with it, just make me chuckle
- oarsinsync 2mo agoThere's something about circles of control in this, that makes the difference. If I publish information about myself, that's about me, and it's in my control. If someone else shares information about me, without my consent, and someone uses that to nose in on me, that feels creepy and problematic.
- poszlem 2mo agoIf you find that concerning, I recommend asking Claude or Codex to analyze all your HN comments and build a profile of you (I recommend that to everyone, not trying to single you out btw.) It takes about 20 minutes. It was eye opening and somewhat unsettling how accurate it was when I ran it on my own data. Even worse, there’s NO way to delete your old HN comments.
- nubinetwork 2mo agoEverybody makes mistakes, it's unfortunate that many people on the internet are psycho and won't let the past be the past...
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoWell at the risk of flouting HN guidelines, I went to Grok and did exactly that. Grok's profiling seems thoroughly fact-based, and doesn't pull any punches. https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_c00f7358-429f-4ff8-bd3f-5a050d622c8f https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_c00f7358-429f-4ff8-bd3f-5a... I suppose it's the 2026 version of "Googling Yourself" and of course, could be used by any of us vs. any given forum account on HN or elsewhere.
- bookofjoe 2mo agoFYamusement: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/06/are-you-in-weights.html https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/06/are-you-in-weights.h...
- account42 2mo agoSuckers pay companies for expensive SSL monitoring products, smart people just post to HN.
- elric 2mo agoI fully share your concerns. And I don't understand how apparently tons of Teams and email conversations can be archived and sold without any kind of scrutiny. How can such data be sold without the consent of all involved parties? What gives Google the right to use it to train LLMs? Is that just a way of washing away the legal protections?
- Ekaros 2mo agoMakes one appreciate living in place with sufficient constitutional protections against this sort of stuff. Even for work stuff selling this info wouldn't fly in some parts of the world.
- woadwarrior01 2mo agoIf you're referring to GDPR, companies routinely evade such protections using "informed consent" / "legitimate interests" loopholes. The big ones get caught once in a while, get a slap on the wrist and continue to do whatever they were doing before, albeit with more safeguards.
- icantevenhold 2mo agoNot really: https://noyb.eu/en/fines-resulting-noyb-litigation https://noyb.eu/en/fines-resulting-noyb-litigation Sure 50 M or even 1 B might be peanuts for faang but still there is real progress. Support Noyb at all costs
- warkdarrior 2mo agoThe party owning this data (Spirit Airlines) is consenting to the sale. Employees and customers of Spirit consented when they started employment and did business with Spirit, respectively.
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- jefftk 2mo agoI think you might have missed the deidentification piece?
- reaperducer 2mo agoNo such animal.
- fileeditview 2mo agoYou have to trust that this really "deidentifies". Time and time again it was shown, that the measures taken were not enough to anonymize. E.g. the parent wrote that he fears, he could be identified by his writing style, which is totally plausible. How would you "deidentify" this?
- piva00 2mo agoEven if they follow to the letter a deidentification process, Google and Meta have so much data about individuals that re-identification shouldn't be very hard for the majority of airline passengers' data they put their hands on. Of course, takes a lot more effort than not doing proper deindetification in the first place but if they wanted to appear like caring about data privacy they still have enough data points to correlate the sets later on (and/or over time).
- xp84 2mo agoThe idea that there’s a nefarious plot to do something super evil with this data is a bit crackpot though based on their incentives. Remember, Google = Ads. Their only focus and only care. Their mission statement, rendered accurately, is “Ads ads ads ads. Effective ads. Ads worth paying a lot for. Ads ads ads. Advertising and ads.” If they choose to be evil in some additional way, (1) remember, they would only do that if in some way it serves their advertising needs — not to offer innovative new black-hat databroker services to airlines, and (2) this little dataset will not need to be re-identified. They’ll just use the 20 years of email and search data they already have on like half the world’s population.
- warkdarrior 2mo agoManny retail industries already share lists of "troublesome" customers (trouble = anything from too many returns to lawsuit-happy to friendly fraud). Not sure this is a new concern..
- snickerbockers 2mo agoSo what happened to the sloth??? Don't bury the lead, man!
- xrd 2mo agoThe sloth was returned to his owner and I did tip him. That kid is probably still prowling the Amazon (as an adult now), looking for sucker tourists like me.
- breppp 2mo agoYou probably should have taken the kid to small claims, that was extortion
- transcriptase 2mo agoGreat way to end up on the no-sloth list
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- lifestyleguru 2mo agoOn a list sold out later to a most vicious data broker after their boat-sloth enterprise went out of business.
- preg_match 2mo agoPut the sloth between me and the kid and let the sloth choose. It's the only fair way to do it!
- RajT88 2mo agoShould have kept the sloth.
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- testing22321 2mo agoDid you end up getting more than $100?
- gspr 2mo agoAnd this is why data protection laws, like the (imperfect) EU ones that are so lamented here on HN, are necessary.
- BlackRing 2mo agoThat's because they're seemingly perfunctory. What's worse than no law is a bad one that doesn't do anything but make you feel like something is actually being done.
- no-name-here 2mo ago> If Google wanted to sell a product to the airlines that offered to keep annoying people like me from purchasing flights, they could do that with that email chain. I'm skeptical it'll be wiped correctly. Isn't my poor writing style basically my signature? The OP article is quite poor in terms of information provided, but the buyer (Google) had to explicitly agree not to attempt to re-identify users. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/google-spirit-airlines-bankruptcy https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/google-spirit-airlines-bank...
- nxobject 2mo agoI'd be amused if a sub-sub-agent organically decided to do it anyway - even if just for a notable figure that an LLM can identify with its weights alone. What are the controls? Who's going to keep Google accountable? Hah.
- probably_wrong 2mo agoI know Meta it's not Google, but it's worth remembering that these promises haven't had a great measure of success in the past: > Facebook has been fined €110m (£94m) by the EU for providing misleading information about its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. (...) When Facebook took over the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014, it told the commission it would not be able to match user accounts on both platforms, but went on to do exactly that. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fined-eu-whatsapp-european-commission https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...
- Georgelemental 2mo agoBut did they agree to not re-sell the data to someone else and let them re-identify users?
- robhlt 2mo agoThe OP article is also wrong on multiple counts. "Customer behavior" data like call recordings and email addresses/activity is specifically not included in Google's purchase. See page 18 of the court document they link, the "Google's Data Purchase Request" column on the right lists what is and isn't included.
- jmyeet 2mo agoThis is a fascinating story. Thanks for posting it. That email you accidentally received really bothers me. I don't understand why a CS rep would get this invested to the point of wanting to cause you real harm. They're not the airline. The psychology is fascinating. There are people out there who feel like a mild short-term inconvenience to them where they have no stakes somehow justifies life-changing harm is kinda frightening, honestly. I'm reminded of the Yahoo search data fiasco that was allegedly anonymized. Turns out, it wasn't so anonymous [1]. For one thing, people tend ed to search their home address. Whoops. You mention writing style. We already have LLMs quite capable of copying a writing style. It's a natural extension to say we can fingerprint writing style too. But here's another aspect. Imagine you're in a relationship with someone and you somehow fingerprint their personal data with a company. For example, you use their Netflix to like 5 very obscure movies, to the point where it's likely unique. Now imagine that Netflix's data gets released in an "anonymized" form and you can now find it based on those obscure likes. I can imagine many scenarios like this. And there's no text involved here at all. [1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/yahoos-gigantic-anonymized-user-dataset-isnt-all-that-anonymous/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/yahoos-gigantic-anonymized-u...
- alistairSH 2mo agoI don't understand why a CS rep would get this invested to the point of wanting to cause you real harm. Two possibilities come to mind... 1 - The CS rep has been instructed to do this. Scary, but corporate leaders can be assholes and wield lots of power within their orgs, so doesn't seem completely unlikely to me. 2 - The CS was just a dick. Frankly, given the behavior of various SuperMegaCorps over the past few decades, I'm going with #1.
- kshacker 2mo ago... or frustrated. "I have my quota of jiras to meet, and this person is taking up too much of my time when it was such a simple issue which no one complains about". Not a good customer service mindset, but frustration happens.
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- sleepyguy 2mo agoWell at least you didn't land in the middle of nowhere. Nokia had the worlds largest cell phone factory there back in the day.
- bananaflag 2mo ago> they could do that with that email chain Now think about all the Gmail data Google has.
- limagnolia 2mo agoThe article directly addresses this concern: "If you’ve flown Spirit and worry that Google will soon know about a testy conversation you had with the airline’s call center, you’re being told not to worry. The court filing says the data was deidentified before being put on sale and Google has promised to scrub any PII it finds in the trove."
- dooglius 2mo agoSee the last 3 sentences of GP's post
- hk__2 2mo ago> Google has promised to This part is worrying.
- limagnolia 2mo agoWell, it also says that the data was already scrubbed. Arguments have been made that this is insufficient.
- post-it 2mo agoI have a bridge to sell you.
- john_strinlai 2mo agounfortunately "de-identified" data is typically re-identified quite trivially. so i guess we just hope google keeps its promise, and is competent in its scrubbing.
- Scene_Cast2 2mo agoExplicitly trying to re-identify data that has been de-identified is typically a fireable offence at FAANG. Accidentally making a machine learning system that happens to (potentially) do it is a different matter.
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- VBprogrammer 2mo agoThis is why I get bad vibes any time I hit a cloudflare interstitial page. If you ever piss them off it would be trivial to cut you off from most of the internet.
- DanielHB 2mo agoJust to dispel some Brazil myths: 1) +95% of the population live on the coast very far away from the Amazon. Most of the population has not been there. Most of the coast has a very different jungle biome called Mata Atlantica and the countryside close to the coast is not that different from temperate forest of Europe. That is what most all Brazilians are used to. There is a significant population in the arid northeast though and the cold south as well (which is even more similar to europe). 2) Manaus is the biggest city in the Amazon and it is huge developed place (and has been for decades). You are not in the middle of the jungle if you land in the airport. The countryside around the city is jungle though. 3) Brazilian people do not necessarily like or are used to tacos and spicy food. Mexico is _really_ far away from Brazil.
- totallykvothe 2mo agoThat was only 3 myths. Hardly a brazilian
- RajT88 2mo agoI would not be offended by the blood donation thing. They generalize based on administrative regions (Amazonas in this case) and not whether you visited a big developed city or not. I had a similar blood donation issue for visiting a particular island in the Philippines, and could not donate for 4 months.
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- ElProlactin 2mo ago> But, this is the kind of information I'm worried about when a vendor sells my data Don't worry. Spirit probably lost all of the emails from the customers (or they were devnulled) and 90% of the data is probably autoresponder messages promising the company would respond. The other 10% was probably the meme collection of the executive management team.
- motbus3 2mo agoThat's exactly how it will go. Few controlling everything, and a slip might make you not able to live.
- dukeofdoom 2mo agoI never understood this attitude, like I feel like being able to fly in airplane is one of the most amazing human achievements, yet people will try and save down to the dollar booking a flight like it was breakfast at Dennys, and come out huffing and puffing as soon as anything goes wrong demanding their money back. Airlines like Spirit catered to the worse of these type of customers.
- xp84 2mo agoThat’s a bit unfair. They also catered to broke people who weren’t crazy or argumentative. On a planeload of 100 people, there must have been 60 of them at least who were just broke. Or on some routes, Spirit was the only carrier with a direct flight so they were just normal people who wanted to get to a certain place efficiently (Hi, that’s me, I flew them for this reason). Keep in mind Spirit had an excellent safety record, too, so airline choice in this case was primarily a question of having luxuries or not.
- KellyCriterion 2mo ago- if they could put me on the no-fly list. - ahhh, there seems to be different no-fly lists? The one Im aware of is the one for terrorists and moneylaunderers, and usually they will not tell you who put you on that list :-D
- kayodelycaon 2mo agoThere are different no fly lists. Airlines maintain their own list of people they’ve banned from their planes.
- wat10000 2mo agoThere is "the" no-fly list maintained by the government, which is nominally for people who are too dangerous to be allowed on an airplane, yet not dangerous enough to charge criminally. But each airline also maintains their own internal no-fly list for people they prefer to no longer have as customers, for whatever reason. You might end up on this for some abuse of the system that doesn't pose any sort of safety risk, so the government doesn't care, but the airline doesn't like. For example, excessively doing hidden-city ticketing (where you book a flight with a connection, then skip the second leg of the trip, because weird pricing rules make it cheaper than just booking a ticket to the connecting city) can get you banned from the airline, but the government would be completely uninterested.
- ajross 2mo agoI'm not sure I follow your argument. The privacy abuse already happened. The data is already there. And it was the airline that did it, not a tech giant who just wants to train a bunch of MLs. Surely if this is the scenario you're worrying about, and you accept the lack of regulatory protections, Google buying Spirit's data is a good thing, right? Much better them than the airlines who you already know to be corrupt?
- xp84 2mo agoJust a reminder that about 40% of the email conversations in the last 20 years are already in Google’s possession with the identifying data. (About another 40% are in Microsoft’s.) If they want to do that they already can, thanks to the public’s overwhelming appetite for “FREE” overriding every single other possible concern. Which is funny to point out on a post about Spirit, since that was an airline built to serve the customers for whom cheapness was the overwhelming single concern.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo ago> the public’s overwhelming appetite for “FREE” In the early pioneering days of the commercialized Internet, email addresses were inextricably linked to your ISP. You paid for an ISP connection and you got an email box, with MTA and MUA service to match. You were reluctant to switch or leave your ISP, because that also meant leaving behind your email address. Of course, a minority of nerds got around this with their own domains, etc. However, it seems that Google, AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail, and other players got into providing free email services and eventually grew into giants that supplanted every other MTA service. This was not an accident and it was not merely our appetite for “FREE” but it was a very calculated plan by the industry. Those early ISPs did not have a business model that admitted monetizing our private data; they seemed to have a more respectful attitude for keeping it private. Perhaps that was a result of being telecommunications-based companies, rather than advertising or entertainment. If a service like email provides such endless treasure troves of personal data, including a social graph and glimpses into our private daily lives, why not provide it for free and monetize opportunistically on the data itself? The free email services killed the paid services, not by being better or cheaper, but by being bigger, centralized, and more persistent. The main reason I signed up for Yahoo! was because it would be an utterly stable presence. I saw my parents and others so hopelessly attached to an ISP-based email, but I couldn't end up like that. After streaks of losing my home and non-payment of bills and moving around over decades, the most stable point of contact for me has been a "free" email address.
- xp84 2mo ago> why not provide it for free and monetize opportunistically on the data itself? Interesting proposition. It seems to me like the first round of this (Hotmail, Yahoo, the free types of accounts AOL offered, Juno, etc) was not about monetizing the data, but about acquiring sticky loyal traffic for their overall portals, to monetize with ads. Remember in the early days you'd log into Yahoo or whatever and the first thing you'd see was your inbox, then later on all these services added a welcome page that would have a bunch of "news/sports/entertainment" type stories, ads, and links to more Yahoo! services. Email was being used then as a loss leader to guarantee you'll be returning several times a week minimum. I believe it was Google who broke the seal on reading our email to show us targeted ads. I hear what you're saying that especially for those who go through exceptional circumstances, a free email untethered to any billing account is useful.[1] But it's still sad to me that that concept - admittedly very compelling to Gen-X and millennials who were going through the chaos of college in the 90s and 2000s when email was becoming popular - ended up cementing this idea forever. Both by establishing these identities on a few popular commercial domains like gmail.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com, and by setting the expectation that "email shouldn't cost even $1 a year." Most of us pay $60-100 a month for an ISP and another $60-100 a month for a cell phone plan, and $0 of that money pays for email. [1] I'd argue that for everyone fortunate enough to have more stability of accounts, homes and such, the "moving" problems could have been easily solved by a regulation kind of like cell phone number portability, which shockingly worked out quite well.
- mariuolo 2mo ago> I got a really strange response over email which I clearly wasn't supposed to see. A representative from that airline was asking internally if they could put me on the no-fly list. That was really chilling. What if they only pretended to forward it to you by mistake and you /were/ supposed to see it? As in "it would be a shame if you could never fly again".
- _DeadFred_ 2mo agoIn the United States legal system, when you take a plea because the Government was threaning you with a 20 year sentence the judge requires in court and under oath for you to state that you were not coerced/pressured in any way to take the plea (because pleas wouldn't be valid if the Government pressured you into them and into signing away your rights). Before you push back at your work you have to consider possible loss of work and therefore housing/medical insurance/food. The entire US system is designed around baked in blackmail of the individual into conforming. Not surprising at all to see the airline turn the no fly list into that pressure, it's the main technique we know to motivate people in the USA.
- anal_reactor 2mo ago> The entire US system is designed around baked in blackmail of the individual into conforming. Back when I still argued with people on reddit I was shocked to learn that normies actually believe this is a good thing. Particular example was that the fact that so much of your life is tied to your workplace and you can get fired for political activity outside of your work. This shuts down any non-mainstream discussions. They were like "yes this is exactly what we want". When I tried to explain "ok but there were times when racism and homophobia were the mainstream, do you think people advocating for equality should've lost their jobs for their political activity" I always got in response 502 Internal Server Error.
- g8oz 2mo agoRight. A lot of people have been fired for supporting Palestinians. Not just in America either.
- XenophileJKO 2mo agoI got to the part where you declined the $100 and thought you declined it because you had gotten some memorable experiences and that was payment enough. The story really didn't go the way I expected.
- dopamean 2mo agoI'll never understand this attitude toward airlines. What did you want them to do in this situation? Keep flying the plane with engine issues so you could make your important meetings? It sounds like the airline did the right thing here but you were still mad?
- BowBun 2mo agoThis has nothing to do with OPs point though. Their point is about the data that was harvested and sold.
- Gud 2mo agoA decent reimbursement. Not parents fault the airline flies around with defective hardware. Usually this is regulated by law.
- tacitusarc 2mo agoDo proper maintenance so they don’t have engine issues, and carry insurance to compensate passengers in case they do?
- usefulcat 2mo agoThere is no amount of maintenance that can avoid all mechanical issues. Take bird strikes, for example. Regarding "carry insurance": margins in the airline business are notoriously slim. They compete very heavily on cost, because the service they provide is a commodity (or close to it). Most airlines will probably not willingly add any extra costs that they don't have to, because that would put them at a disadvantage relative to their competitors. For those passengers who are willing to pay extra to be reimbursed for delays or other inconveniences, there may be travel insurance that can provide that.
- hock_ads_ad_hoc 2mo agoPerhaps they want the airlines to do a better job maintaining their fleet such that the airline is capable of meeting its obligations with respect to arriving on time without crashing.
- dmix 2mo agoFWIW the article says: > deidentified data
- sandcat_ 2mo agoThat did not go where I thought it was going! I thought you were going to say that the pink dolphins, the sloth, etc, were all more valuable than $100 ever… nevermind you missed some meetings, time to sue!
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- letmetweakit 2mo agoIt seems like you had a nice, unexpected experience due to the incident. I didn't expect your story to end up in you threatening to take them to court.
- mikeweiss 2mo agoAgree. Some people really fail to see the bright side of things. Sad.
- eventualcomp 2mo ago> I declined to take that offer. I had missed several business meetings that cost me actual money. I couldn't donate blood for years because I had been to the Amazon and was tagged a malaria risk. RTFP?
- mmooss 2mo agoGoogle will now connect your HN username to your Spirit customer service records.
- NDlurker 2mo agoSounds like you should have got the travel insurance
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- chermi 2mo agoAren't there like ToS/SLA whatever the word is when you buy tickets that cover what's promised? I don't really get what they did wrong landing. If they had to cover every case then I'd expect super high variance on prices to cover routes more likely to cause problems. Is your contention that they slacked on maintenance? I guess i still don't understand what your expectation was. Just more money? Does anyone know if higher tier ticket classes come with more reimbursement? Maybe it's newer thing where the airlines offer insurance and the credit cards offer separate insurance. I'd be curious if they existed 20 years ago and if they would've helped in your situation. To be clear, I hate airlines. It's one of the sectors that has certainly gone back down in terms of user experience. I have had shitty experiences, but also experiences where they surprised me with service. Those latter experiences were actually based on the credit card now that I think about it. On the plus side a lot more people get to fly now. I agree with your very last concern about data.
- nostrademons 2mo agoA product that lets airlines keep annoying people off them isn't worth enough to either the airlines or Google for it to be worth releasing. My very first project at Google made them about $180M. It was canceled after about 3 years because it didn't move the needle. If it doesn't make at least a billion, it's not worth the distraction to the executives. I was like "Well can I quit and buy it back, I would love to make $180M", but no, it was too tied in to Google infrastructure to make a clean split, and would cost more in lawyers and exec attention to be worth it. Most likely Google is using this so that they have actual training data on how a company runs internally. What kind of emails do people send? What actions are taken in response to them? What starts out as a chat and then becomes an email? What do communication architectures inside the company look like? Whose job is superfluous and doesn't actually add to the bottom line? Who does the same thing over and over again, which can be replaced by a computer and LLM? They can then build this into the next release of Gemini and bundle it with their Cloud offerings, where it will generate much more than a billion dollars in sales to all sorts of organizations, without anyone much caring about the individual people who make up the data set.
- mikeweiss 2mo agoDude you got a free once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Amazon and Rio Negro. You saw pink dolphins. I think you made out pretty well. I would have taken the $100 and made peace.... Yeesh
- shelled 2mo ago> A representative from that airline was asking internally if they could put me on the no-fly list. These are the kinds of scary scenarios that people should fight and push back on opaque, unaccountable laws that other people and organisations in power try to enact in the name of safety and security, and we need to collectively fight back when someone is charged, or worse "taken away", without due process and visibility.
- ncr100 2mo agoManaus has a population of 2.2 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaus It's a major city.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago>Isn't my poor writing style basically my signature? How do you wipe that? Stylometry obfuscation is a surprisingly strong point in favor of using wholly LLM generated writing to rephrase your points. If someone sees a — and doesn't know you're intentionally trying to snuggle good points through blandly mellifluous prose, they'll just assume you're like every other boring dangerous professional out there. Nothing to worry about.
- fra 2mo agoI think most business will decline to do any further business with you after you threaten to sue them. There are even patent licenses that automatically get voided in the event you sue your counterparty for any reason.
- tengbretson 2mo ago> But, this is the kind of information I'm worried about when a vendor sells my data. If Google wanted to sell a product to the airlines that offered to keep annoying people like me from purchasing flights How can I help them accomplish this goal?
- a34729t 2mo agoAirlines are giant money losing organizations. They are kept on life support either as a national pride thing, an essential service or in America they are actually credit card companies.
- dyauspitr 2mo agoThis is insane entitlement. You sued them because you landed at an alternate airport in a country you were visiting.