orcthwy012

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by orcthwy012 7y ago
So what do you mean by "people being in control of their own stuff" - why even bother talking about something that will never happen? I mean other than maybe Richard Stallman, who even does anything remotely close to this? Wrt: m
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by orcthwy012 7y ago
Also I fail to see any actual privacy-related consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal - there's some fear-mongering over some targeted ads seen by some people but that is not a privacy breach nor a scandal. They broke TOS for
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by orcthwy012 7y ago
How is that bar not cleared? You have a choice as to which websites to visit and the website developer has a choice as to which third-party pixels are included.
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by orcthwy012 7y ago
Well if your friend has access to your information, your friend can give that information to a third-party. That's how anything normally works. I didn't explicitly grant my friends or anyone permission to give my information to
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by orcthwy012 7y ago
They choose to use websites and software, whose developers in turn choose to send usage data to third parties. Trust in this sense is necessarily transitive. In a complex world with long supply chains, almost everything works that way - I
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by orcthwy012 7y ago
What does "people being in control of their own stuff" even mean? Right now, people are in control and they choose to use software that is convenient for them, which happens to upload their data to the cloud. How do you force pe
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by orcthwy012 7y ago
It's interesting to see the responses to this article and contrast with the responses to the article regarding Facebook's possible 5B fine. I don't know the motivation behind this decision but I can't help but see the t