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Re: Show HN: Fubook – license your data for a fee to platforms that want it free

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A lot of people in here complaining about the (admittedly clever) name. Seems like the bigger issue is whether you have any chance of them even responding to your license request. What is your chance of winning a legal battle with them if they keep your data and don't pay you?

Right, there have to be stringent stipulations that they can only hold the data for a set period of time, it must be deleted and zeroed out in the right way, and they have to make a new request when their license time on it expires. Overall, it's completely feasible, but still a totally new area of consumer protection.

Re: Show HN: Fubook – license your data for a fee to platforms that want it free

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus neither of those services actually ever deletes your data or stops collecting more. I've never had a Facebook account and yet it knows plenty about me.

Genuine question: how do you know that? Just assuming based on their practices, or do you have an other way to find out?

Targeted advertising that comes from hidden pixels and 3rd party sources (that Facebook was buying until just recently)
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