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This seems like the shady type of thing lawmakers should pass laws against
It's the sort of thing Apple should ban to protect its claim that it is more private than Android.
I keep buying into the Apple ecosystem because of their stance on user privacy. Sure, they aren't perfect; but they are miles ahead of there competitors.
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Even if you make your contact list 99% bounces and 1% real (and every user of the app does the same), I don't see how this becomes a problem for the app's operator. Remove a contact after 1-2 bounces and you're golden.
Who bounces any more?
Data poisoning needs to become a standard practice. Make the "valuable" ad data useless
From an economics perspective it seems like a more viable approach. Most of the techniques considered state of the art now are likely easily detectable by Google and other ad tech companies - they have a very good idea of which data can be safely discarded. Rather than blocking Google Analytics I wonder what would happen if browsers started responding with garbage.
I don't see what the point is. "Data poisoning" gives companies a bunch of fake contacts... on top of all your real ones? Who cares? So they send some e-mails to addresses that don't exist or something? So it takes up an extra 1% of disk space in their database? If you could share an empty address book then that would actually preserve the privacy of your contacts. But this doesn't do that. I don't get it.
It will be interesting to see if these fake contacts show up in a leak somewhere someday. Almost like how people do myname+yourcompany@gmail.com, we could create similarly fake contacts to see who is selling or leaking data.
I don't see what the point is. "Data poisoning" gives companies a bunch of fake contacts... on top of all your real ones? Who cares? So they send some e-mails to addresses that don't exist or something? So it takes up an extra 1% of disk space in their database? If you could share an empty address book then that would actually preserve the privacy of your contacts. But this doesn't do that. I don't get it.
I don't see what the point is. "Data poisoning" gives companies a bunch of fake contacts... on top of all your real ones? Who cares? So they send some e-mails to addresses that don't exist or something? So it takes up an extra 1% of disk space in their database? If you could share an empty address book then that would actually preserve the privacy of your contacts. But this doesn't do that. I don't get it.
Can also be used as a canary trap.
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Has the EU sued and won against any company who is not located in the EU?
That's not a good test, because the law is still relatively new, and it takes a while for litigation to make its way through the system. We also don't necessarily know who has settled out of court. Would you like to be a test case for us?
I'd be extremely interested for a company who doesn't operate in the EUs being brought to court and what other countries are willing to help the EU exercise those judgements if any.
Clubhouse requires contact list in order to get invites, which are required to sign up right now. I get why they are doing this, and it caused me to share my contacts with them. However, I resented it and it put me immediately in a defensive posture with the product and company. There is no possible way to trust a company with your contact list and Apple should make it how Photos works now--where you can select which…
> Clubhouse requires contact list in order to get invites, which are required to sign up right now How is this GDPR compliant?
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I've noticed a bunch of spammers starting to strip out anything after the + and before the @. This is why I've long used a catch-all e-mail domain (subdomain.example.net) where I can put anything I want to the left of the @ sign and no one is the wiser for my real e-mail address.
Is there some service where I can easily create unlimited custom email addresses for a flat monthly fee? I want to use a unique email for each new website/service. That would go a long way to solving some data leak/privacy problems. The problem with custom domain is I have to maintain it right? I want a service which I don't have to maintain. I used to use new Yahoo accounts but they are a hassle and recently they di…