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I'm pretty sure you can tell the difference between the two.
Banditry is when the baddies drop by periodically to demand a portion of your labor on threat of violence. Government is when they don’t leave.
I can’t give specifics, I know someone who had to deal with “delete me” requests from these “privacy” companies. The privacy company would literally take your personal info (name, email), and _email it to every company they could think of_ asking the company to delete your account _even if you didn’t have one_.
Gentle reminder that Mozilla Monitor is just OneRep, albeit marked up for Mozilla Corporation’s profits (yes Mozilla is a for profit, its foundation is not).
This kind of thing feels better left to trusted 1st parties, oneself. Link to a list of data broker opt out methods: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...
The problem is there are 200+ data brokers out there and I don't have time to deal with that many.
(I'm just a user, not associated with them.)
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Banditry is when the baddies drop by periodically to demand a portion of your labor on threat of violence. Government is when they don’t leave.
the last guy who stole an Amazon box off my porch didn't put up a school for my kids, the road in front of my house, help the homeless guy I gave my second burger to the other day get out of the cold, make sure the water out of my tap didn't kill me, etc
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Banditry is when the baddies drop by periodically to demand a portion of your labor on threat of violence. Government is when they don’t leave.
the last guy who stole an Amazon box off my porch didn't put up a school for my kids, the road in front of my house, help the homeless guy I gave my second burger to the other day get out of the cold, make sure the water out of my tap didn't kill me, etc
Once organized crime gets big enough, it's really difficult to distinguish from a weak government.
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Ideally a regulator would intervene, demanding that the data provider prove that each person in their database has explicitly opted in. That should be really easy for these companies -- it's just another record to include in our files. If they can't prove it, they must delete all related data.
Why not just outlaw data brokers entirely?
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I don't understand the logic. They're more private for admitting that they don't respect your privacy?
Microsoft and Google don't even try to hide the fact they will siphon your data, whether you like it or not. You can turn off some of the egregious siphoning, but that's about it. Mozilla meanwhile claims to be the champion of digital privacy, marketing Firefox as the private browser of choice along with a host of ostensibly privacy products such as VPN, all the while also siphoning data. Turning it all off requires…