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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by DocTomoe »

thayne wrote: post #75
davely wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A home address is considered PII (Personally Identifiable Information) because, when combined with a name, it directly identifies where someone lives. When people share their address with businesses, they are generally protected under laws like GDPR and CCPA. OP’s site seems a bit hosed at the moment so I can’t dig into their privacy policy and see how they handle GDPR and CCPA deletion requests.

> When people share their address with businesses, they are generally protected under laws like GDPR and CCPA. Only in the EU or California.

That's 500 million people (EU), 25 Million people (California), and of course you forget about all the other places that have PII data protection laws, like Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and increasingly more US states. Then, of course, there is Canada, the UK, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Singapore, Israel, all of which have GDPR-compatible laws or are quickly approaching it.

I am no lawyer. Before collecting data, better talk to one.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#102

Post by seb1204 »

nl wrote: post #96
nine_k wrote: post #90

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It's still around, and looks alive. I remember when Slashdot introducing the karma cap, far below my then extant karma. It mostly made karma farming irrelevant. I also like their mod points plus meta moderation approach.

Slashdot has a karma cap now?... (goes and logs in for the first time in maybe 10 years) How do you even see your karma now? Is having a 4-digit UID from before the new 1998(?) green look still cool?

Ice cool

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#103

Post by handfuloflight »

cootsnuck wrote: post #97
ldoughty wrote: post #49

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I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…

This specific service will know who your friends are. And if enough people used it... they might have to reincorporate in California.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#104

Post by davidron »

cootsnuck wrote: post #97
ldoughty wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…

The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associated with id_8z6748dxzh and combine it with your shopping history at Macy's and Safeway, for instance. This is even more valuable when combined with your cellular bill.

I've work in ad tech,and with CDPs for nearly 20 years.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#106

Post by fuzztester »

hackernewds wrote: post #63
Forgeties79 wrote: post #55

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No need to be patronizing. You clearly know what they mean, it’s a term that I’ve definitely seen beyond Reddit.

karma is definitely a reddit term. but besides that, nothing wrong with using reddit

HN user pg, aka Paul Graham, the (co-)founder of both this site, i.e. HN, and YC itself, the "parent" site, was probably the guy (or one of his early colleagues) who implemented the karma feature here on HN.

I am saying this because the feature has been there from pretty early on.

No need to believe me, go verify it yourself, by any means you choose.

And see:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EndlessKnot03d.png

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#107

Post by adnanaga »

collingreen wrote: post #30
CamelCaseName wrote: post #23

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or... maybe this is just a fun side project they whipped up as a joke? Some side project for a resume? Just look at OP's comment history, one example: > I absolutely love making chrome extensions - my very first one was creating an extension for tinder.com that would swipe left on anyone with the first name Chad All they require here is your name and email, and the recipient's name and address. Both are (probably) pu…

Why not just make a pdf or a copy paste version? I get suspicious when extra work is done to make worse ux; my assumption is that it rarely happens without a hidden incentive.

OP here - We just wanted to make it easier on folks to send out! We just posted the template on the site now if people want to write their own!

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#108

Post by rsanek »

costcofries wrote: post #99
bragr wrote: post #22

This reminds me of how my father (a lawyer) sent fake subpoenas to invite people to his brother's bachelor party. Most found it hilarious but it freaked a few people out. I suspect that this would have the same problem.

[flagged]

even if that were true, do you want to be the person to trigger that for them? i don't.

in general i think the issue is simpler tho. comedy is just subjective, not everyone enjoys the same stuff

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#109

Post by adnanaga »

royal__ wrote: post #6

Cool idea! It sounds like you're offering it for free, with the option for a donation. How are you going to deal with the influx of what I imagine will be hundreds of free requests? Won't that get pretty expensive fast?

OP here - There will be a lot we won’t be able to get to Hahahh but we want to try and send out as many as we can!
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