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Jesus those movies did not improve. I downgraded a couple friends to backup duty because they said I’d love the first shitty transformers movie. I figured by the end of that shit show of a movie those people have no idea who I am, what I like, or what entertainment is and should be treated as such.

Now I have to live with the fact that I re-watched a Youtube video for the sole purpose of looking for a robot scrotum. Thanks for that. Thanks.

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Once you start treating prison as a location for rehabilitation rather than a source of free labour and a way to leverage power over others and to punish them. Yea, that generally is the result.

YES I KNOW. They also like to start the wars. I am with you there.

You don’t have to kid, it already happens without question.

Just a heads up, the more data you collect on one person, the easier it is to identify them. If you know their friends, the area they live in, what time they wake up, where they go, what they order, and what devices they login from you can very easily find out who they are.

Pretty much. Nobody cares what Bob Smith does in his free time. What they care about is that, out of 900,000 customers, 60% of internet time is spent on porn, and 30% on online shopping, and 40% on online games, and 10% of news. Knowing that is fucking gold for a lot of people, but completely worthless for Bob Smith.

Data’s actually pretty easy to de-anonymize if you have enough of it. You’d be surprised how little can be used to link back to you.

faceless data is not faceless data.

Even if they can’t guess it in minutes by the 1000s of visits to the “Thorin Klosowski”facebook page, AI has become freakishly good at guessing your identity from the faintest information.

that’s a really cool program, and could do a lot to help them work through issues in their life.

A simpler way to think of this is “If they do happen to sell the data with identifying information attached such as name or IP Address, this makes it more even more difficult to sue them.” There’s no way you could really know, but in the event you did this only makes it one step tougher to fight against. There’s very…

Remember all those times you turned on Incognito/Private Browsing mode because you didn’t want anyone to see what you were doing? Yeah I’m sure your ISP will be paid top-dollar for that goldmine.

Without regulation, this is difficult to ensure, and furthermore, anonymized data can often be deanonymized through either focused analysis, or simple synthesis with other sources. If any source is identifiable and substantive- say, your mobile browsing from Verizon - I have a good opportunity to find you, given…

I work in an industry that is adjacent to these kind of data brokers, and let me tell you, it is scary. It is true that they can’t connect the dots all the way to your actual name, but that is probably the least important piece of data.

I’m reading it the other way.

the danger here is that it’s unclear what, if any, face they could put on it, because it’s a kinda oddball return to the wild west of the internet with unclear rules over who’s regulating what... at least right now! by the time it reaches the House, there might be more information beyond “we don’t want to do the thing…