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by jboggan 10d ago
You are missing the biggest benefit of a self storage business - the appreciation of the underlying real estate. When you dig into the financials of the major self storage businesses you'll see they are essentially REITs that have bett
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by jboggan 13d ago
Not true. If they do that they are violating the law and that will show up in the audits. They have to delete the data, all records associated with that identifier, now including any 3rd party data that they bought from other brokers and di
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by jboggan 14d ago
I'd like to point out that the CA assembly has passed AB-1542 and it is likely going to be signed by the governor this week. This would make the sale and sharing of "sensitive" personal information illegal, and one of the sen
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by jboggan 14d ago
You can invoke CCPA (if applicable) and directly ask a covered business or registered data broker for an exact output of your existing information on their systems. This is honestly rare and most companies will find ways to deny you - askin
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by jboggan 19d ago
Reminder that smart TV ids are part of California's DROP platform, and that you can (and should) request that all registered data brokers delete data associated with your television.
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by jboggan 1mo ago
I grew up playing X-Wing and TIE Fighter, editing missions was my first exposure to "programming" and the notion that you could change the bits inside the computer to make different outcomes occur. I also fondly remember my cousin
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by jboggan 2mo ago
I've been building the infra for data brokers to connect to DROP (easy), actually effect deletions (hard), and make sure the data stays deleted (harder): forgetmenaut.com DROP is pretty significant considering that it's the first
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by jboggan 2mo ago
Do you think you could be an unregistered data broker? You should probably reach out to me directly so I can give you more targeted advice. All of the requests are SHA-256 hashvalues, they aren't transmitting any usable information in
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by jboggan 2mo ago
Well the CPPA (state regulator) just hit General Motors with a $12.75M fine for selling data to two registered data brokers, and made the brokers who received the data delete it all: https://ccpa.world/enforcement/gm-on
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by jboggan 3mo ago
I once did an application of Benford's Law to USDT transactions between crypto exchanges, which seemed to indicate some exchanges had mostly "organic" transactions and a handful of exchanges seemed to have heavy transaction v
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by jboggan 3mo ago
To be fair, the reason the CA laws are much more expansive on all uses of data is because companies have tried a number of arrangements to get around the definition of "sale". This was Sephora's defense back in the first CCPA
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by jboggan 3mo ago
(I'm also in Utah) I'll second this observation, as well as add that apart from AI slop most people around here associate the data center push with the sudden proliferation of Flock cameras at every major intersection and along ev
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by jboggan 3mo ago
That would be interesting but the space is so choked now. I'm also already busy building Forgetmenaut and enabling data deletion at scale: forgetmenaut.com
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by jboggan 3mo ago
You're probably on to something with the value of disagreement. I think it's one reason why chatting with current models doesn't create the same stimulation as rubber-ducking used to bring. The models are typically too quick
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by jboggan 3mo ago
In 2017 LLMs weren't powerful enough to generate working code on their own, but my goal was to at least create a chatbot that could help you rubber-duck-debug your way to a solution. Unfortunately the tech wasn't quite strong enou
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by jboggan 4mo ago
The CPPA went above the FTC and banned it outright, as well as forcing the two registered data brokers who bought the data to delete it.
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by jboggan 4mo ago
Well, CT and VT passed their own version of the California DROP system last week and there are 5 other states in play for the current 2026 legislative sessions. I think it will be a slow patchwork for more states to take similar action, but
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by jboggan 4mo ago
I built a half-baked CRM that has a lot of custom fields and visuals for statistics that are relevant to my potential customers. I'm selling primarily to registered data brokers, so being able to pull up their self-published compliance
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by jboggan 4mo ago
California very quietly passed AB-1542 last week which includes precise location data, health data, SSNs, etc. I expect many states to follow suit. Related, General Motors got hit with a $12.75M fine for reselling OnStar location data last
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by jboggan 5mo ago
Previous discussion on this case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793903 The real impact o
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General Motors fined $12.75M for selling location data(privacy.ca.gov)
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by jboggan 5mo ago
Yes of course, I was in a mountain lake looking for walleye yesterday!
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by jboggan 5mo ago
My wife used to think that I had terrible sleep apnea because I'd repeatedly quit breathing for a minute or two at a time and then gasp for air, but it turned out I was just dreaming about freediving for lobsters.
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by jboggan 5mo ago
Is this named after the 2011 split album with Grimes and d'Eon?
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by jboggan 6mo ago
The fact that this is an AI generated comment makes this far funnier, despite being true.
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by jboggan 8mo ago
I don't think it is killing SaaS. I have definitely had to extend my sales cycle when a potential customer vibe-coded a quick fix for a pain point that might have triggered a sale a few weeks earlier, but eventually the benefit deliver
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by jboggan 11mo ago
My friend Dave Taylor (programmer on Doom / Doom 2 / Quake / Abuse) was famous for marathon gaming sessions when he was at id. He told me it almost killed him after a session because he was driving and saw what he thought was
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by jboggan 1y ago
I lament my 13 mini coming to the end of its lifespan. Good design.
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by jboggan 1y ago
I am very curious if California's consumer rights to data deletion and correction are going to apply to the LLM model providers.
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by jboggan 1y ago
Fantastic read and a really interesting company I did not know about until just now. I would love to see how it handles Castlevania II.

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