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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).
Non-profit doesn't mean no profit.
How about https://crscpa.com/blog/how-much-profit-can-a-nonprofit-make...
I wonder if there are reputation protection companies that try a different strategy: for every user that requests their service, prop up thousands of fake identities with the user's name, but each with some inconsistent profile that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original user. So if someone search for a person, their search results would be flooded with garbage. Since it seems very difficult to try t…
The former British prime minister executed a similar technique to hide his scandal by releasing search-engine chaff. He had a press interview where he claimed one of his hobbies was painting miniature red buses, and the scandal he was hiding was false and distateful ads on a (real) red bus as part of a campaign for Brexit.
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
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A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
Some places don't allow use of smart phone. They actually ask you check your phone into a coat check type thing at door! One journalist friend often leaves the smart phone at home.
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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
Many large drug cartels pay for schools, give out food to the poor, and control some forms of crime to increase public support or at least prevent their protest. Once organized crime gets big enough, it's really difficult to distinguish from a weak government.
Once organized crime gets really big, it stops being crime and persists on organization alone.
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…
The lesson for the modern ago. Don't put stuff into digital form if you want privacy! Some places don't allow use of smart phone. They actually ask you check your phone into a coat check type thing at door! One journalist friend often leaves the smart phone at home.
Cabaret at the Kit Kat club in London places a sticker over any camera lens. The Burnt City, an immersive theatrical experience, makes you place your phone in a pouch that is then sealed with a tamper evident fastening before you enter the venue.
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I had a suspicion these services actually do more harm than good, even if they're well intentioned and not actively running a data collection scheme. But this is really a chicken-egg situation. How do you tell companies to delete your information without telling them what identifies your information? It's in these companies' interest to make this as difficult as possible, so a solution based on data hashes is highly…
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.
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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.
And when they autofill that value with 1, because they obviously got all of that data legitimately? Will consumers be asked to prove a negative? Even test cases will run into data sharing issues.
amazingly enough the law is more clever than programmers assume it is, and the clever dodges programmers come up with tend to be seen through and just lead to jail time.
Prime Exhibit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
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Many large drug cartels pay for schools, give out food to the poor, and control some forms of crime to increase public support or at least prevent their protest. Once organized crime gets big enough, it's really difficult to distinguish from a weak government.
Sure and many feudal warlords grew the same way but at some point the Castle decayed away and became a tourist destination and what was left behind was the community and governance. Once organized crime gets really big, it stops being crime and persists on organization alone.