My private information is worth $30
blog.melashri.net
My private information is worth $30
1–10 of 67 posts
Re: My private information is worth $30
#2> This same university which promised a life access to email address which they did not honor, ...
A tangent, but I had the same thing with my university. I wonder how common this is, and if google is the common thread...
Re: My private information is worth $30
#3Reading investor reports is interesting as well, to see what companies think you're worth to them. Check out Roku's ARPU - it's something like $40 a year now per user in marketing.
Re: My private information is worth $30
#4What I thought was most interesting was the statement at the very end: "The poetic nature of writing in grievance in Arabic is much more effective than in English." Differences between languages are so interesting to me. Anyone here know Arabic and feel the same way as the author? What makes Arabic different in that sense?
Re: My private information is worth $30
#5> This same university which promised a life access to email address which they did not honor, ... A tangent, but I had the same thing with my university. I wonder how common this is, and if google is the common thread...
[deleted]
Re: My private information is worth $30
#6> This same university which promised a life access to email address which they did not honor, ... A tangent, but I had the same thing with my university. I wonder how common this is, and if google is the common thread...
"What are you going to do about it." is the new mantra of the oligopolies. These institutions, both private and public sector, are now so big, they get away with things like this all the time. It's only when the big dogs fight that they change. Mussolini(a piece of sh*t, I know) said something similar about the League of Nations(precursor to UN). It works when robins and swallows quarrel, it fails when Eagles are involved.
Re: My private information is worth $30
#7It would be interesting to see what calculations went into arriving at the number. They must have started with a large number that should be distributed to all students. Where did that large number come from? Some fund allocated for this kind of purpose? Some ransom that was demanded by the attackers, putting a value on the data? Some psychological tests that determined $30 is enough to keep the young folks from rebellion while not affecting future prospects for the university?
Re: My private information is worth $30
#8> They will not take responsibility for their actions, and they will not compensate you for the damage they caused. They will just offer you a small amount of money and hope that you will forget about it.
Paying for a wrongful action is taking reponsibility and compensating. But also "for the damage they caused" - what's the damage if the info is already out there?
> The basic problem is that they do not care about us.
True, of course, but the basic problem is different - "apology" costs more due to the way the legal system is set up, "nothing more". Otherwise you'd get your empty apologies left and right, though strang that you value that more than compensation. Empty words cost even less than $30 (unless, of course, there is a system to make them legally potentially cost more)
Re: My private information is worth $30
#9What I thought was most interesting was the statement at the very end: "The poetic nature of writing in grievance in Arabic is much more effective than in English." Differences between languages are so interesting to me. Anyone here know Arabic and feel the same way as the author? What makes Arabic different in that sense?
I just watched the film about Spotify "The Playlist". It took a few minutes before I picked up that it was dubbed. I switched back to Norwegian with English subtitles and the film became instantly enjoyable. All languages hold a beauty.
"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam"
Re: My private information is worth $30
#10The issue is, that your personal info is valuable to only you. It also doesn't reflect character worth or personal worth.
That's how people gave their privacy away to apps - they've realized this is the best deal they can get for it. Conversely, when the court tries to estimate what is the financial impact of such a leak, there's not much to base it off.
I've just finished The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and it's ridiculous how Google et Al were able to profit from these scraps we gave them. So maybe the value could be higher?