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Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by nomorewords »

wat10000 wrote: post #24
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would politicians ever pass such a law? Who do you think they work for? update: Yeah, my bad. The point of this comment was to express my increasing cynicism at how we just keep seeing this kind of corporate behavior over and over again and how even when a tiny win is achieved on things like data collection, right to repair, ease for cancelling subscriptions, privacy, and so on and so on, they are so quickly over…

Ideally because we'd vote in politicians who would do it, and vote out those who didn't.

Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

nomorewords wrote: post #31
wat10000 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ideally because we'd vote in politicians who would do it, and vote out those who didn't.

Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?

I don't believe donations or corporate backing had anything to do with Trump, for example, winning. Trump won because he genuinely appeals to the average voting American. American voters are willingly choosing to support these politicians and all of the consequences that entails.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by idle_zealot »

bell-cot wrote: post #15
wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

I wouldn't be surprised if both are illegal. But these days, the correlation between "X is illegal" and "larger org's do not do X" just ain't what it yousta be.

My understanding is that it's legal with opt-in, but the opt-in is allowed to be confusing, opaque, and sticky, so most people "consent" without informed consideration. We really need to revisit contract law in a modern context. Call me crazy but I don't think it's reasonable that our society operates in such a way that easily 90+% of people are subject to contract terms they signed but don't know or understand.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by dgellow »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #32
nomorewords wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?

I don't believe donations or corporate backing had anything to do with Trump, for example, winning. Trump won because he genuinely appeals to the average voting American. American voters are willingly choosing to support these politicians and all of the consequences that entails.

For the president election, maybe, but without corporate backing of the GOP he would have to face an adversarial congress. Or at least, that’s the hope

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by fn-mote »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #32
nomorewords wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?

I don't believe donations or corporate backing had anything to do with Trump, for example, winning. Trump won because he genuinely appeals to the average voting American. American voters are willingly choosing to support these politicians and all of the consequences that entails.

You can believe the latter but the former ignores everything we know about the effectiveness of advertising.

And also about the targeting of swing districts.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by TehCorwiz »

downbad_ wrote: post #35

The richest tech companies and richest men in the world got rich by invading people's privacy and selling invasive ads.

> The richest tech companies and richest men in the world got rich by invading people's privacy and ~selling invasive ads.~

I think you mean "manipulating content algorithms to favor their viewpoints and to target individuals for maximum effect."

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