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Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by borne0 »

wingkongex wrote: post #83
borne0 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, even if a data breach hadn't happened, did you have any concerns about people within the company having access to those photos? I also use myfitnesspal and strava but I have a strong aversion to sharing that kind of info with anyone, period. I'm 36, is this a generational thing?

Did you used to care that some dude at CVS would have possession of your photographs for hours at a time when you went to get them developed?

No, it didn't. But you took the chance the individual at that location was supremely interested in certain types of photos, whereas now if a '10x' developer was given access to a large amount of data they could zone in on what they want.

Upon writing my concerns out I am struck by how narcissistic and unlikely it sounds, but I still think I'd be a bit queasy when I click upload.

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by jlarocco »

craftkiller wrote: post #72
borne0 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, even if a data breach hadn't happened, did you have any concerns about people within the company having access to those photos? I also use myfitnesspal and strava but I have a strong aversion to sharing that kind of info with anyone, period. I'm 36, is this a generational thing?

I'm 9 years your junior and I wouldn't care if pictures of me fully naked were all over the internet, but at the same time I'm a privacy freak. I think the division for me is: my image says nothing about me other than my love of gluttony, but my words and actions are my identity.

I guess it's a philosophical issue, but I would consider my physical image to be a part of my identity. In a way it's a reflection of a person's actions.

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by papa_bear »

artichikin wrote: post #69
OldSchoolJohnny wrote: post #48

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MFP is extremely limited when it comes to tracking micronutrients. If all you care about are very basic facts it's alright. If you care about much more then Cronometer is commonly considered the best.

thanks! cronometer founder here :-) my indie hackers interview for anyone that cares: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/03874047f2

Awesome, I didn't realize you did an interview! I have a ton of respect for the high standards you've been maintaining with data quality, keep it up.

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by fastball »

geerlingguy wrote: post #76
iamben wrote: post #19

No notification via email or app for me as of yet... Seems like the sort of thing I should hear from them first, rather than the Baltimore Sun.

I got an email an hour ago, but I signed up fairly recently. Maybe emails are in batch, reverse order.

I got an email at 9:54 EST (half an hour ago), and I've been a user for years now. So it's not exactly the most prompt email I've ever received.

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by [deleted] »

tragic wrote: post #3

> The affected data did not include government-issued identifiers, such as Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers, information that the app does not collect from users Well, I suppose it wouldn't, would it? Is this supposed to be impressive? How many more of these before serious legislation gets through?

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Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by rojobuffalo »

teolemon wrote: post #98
rojobuffalo wrote: post #71

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Thanks for that correction. I recall there being a clear reason why I couldn't use their data in my app. But maybe I had it wrong. I remember reading that if my app collected new data about foods and I was using the OFF db, I had to commit to making all my data free and open. I was worried about the possible case that personal food consumption data would be vulnerable to that share-alike constraint.

No, no worries about personal consumption. What the OdBL requires you to do is to add missing products. Not add data outside the scope of the original database. (I'm a Open Food Facts admin) Also please don't scrape us, since we release nightly dumps of the DB :)

Thanks for clarifying that. And that's great that those DB downloads are available. I didn't like the idea of scraping the data in the first place so never went that route.

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by swozey »

bigiain wrote: post #91
wingkongex wrote: post #83

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Did you used to care that some dude at CVS would have possession of your photographs for hours at a time when you went to get them developed?

So it seems that yes - this is a generational thing :-) (I'd be curious to run a straw-poll to find out how many Hackernews ever actually got "photographs developed"...)

I'm 34 and I've never had photos developed. When I was old enough (14-15?) to care about taking pictures of things I had one of those Sony Mavica floppy disk cameras that could hold something like, I dunno, 30-50 pictures.

But, on the flip side, every time I goto Walgreens there's people getting photos developed.

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by daniel_iversen »

Props for them doing the right thing and hopefully nothing bad comes out of it - looks like they’ve built a useful product. One thing that’s odd to me on many levels though is that it was their Chief Digital Officer signing the announcement and not their head of security. Don’t they have one? Wasn’t this severe enough? I know it’s just perception but still!

Re: Notice of Data Breach

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Post by gowld »

wingkongex wrote: post #83
borne0 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, even if a data breach hadn't happened, did you have any concerns about people within the company having access to those photos? I also use myfitnesspal and strava but I have a strong aversion to sharing that kind of info with anyone, period. I'm 36, is this a generational thing?

Did you used to care that some dude at CVS would have possession of your photographs for hours at a time when you went to get them developed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_Photo
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