Please Sell My Personal Information
taylor.town
Please Sell My Personal Information
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Re: Please Sell My Personal Information
#2Recently I contacted Citi bank which kept sending me spam, including "bank statements" I could not access, which makes perfect sense given that I don't have an account with them.
I was told that they had no record of me and that if I want to be super duper sure they're right I should send a physical letter with a scan of my Id to their offices.
After another few months of getting spammed by them, I sent them a GDPR data subject request instead. After a few days I received a message stating that:
1) my email was removed from their mailing list (yay)
2) they didn't/process have any of my personal data, but
3) since I shared my personal data with them _via the data subject request_, they're obliged to keep it
I'm not angry, I just enjoy the irony and absurdity of the entire situation. In a sense, large orgs like this are as coherent as GPT-3 is away of what it's talking about.
Re: Please Sell My Personal Information
#3Recently I contacted Citi bank which kept sending me spam, including "bank statements" I could not access, which makes perfect sense given that I don't have an account with them. I was told that they had no record of me and that if I want to be super duper sure they're right I should send a physical letter with a scan of my Id to their offices. After another few months of getting spammed by them, I sent them a GDPR d…
The exact same kafkaesque situation is what inspired me to write this post!
I don't want to send my personal information in a "delete my personal info" form to organizations who I never trusted with my data in the first place
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#4in all seriousness, i'll take the contrary opinion, i love targeted ads. saves me time, and there's no way to keep my data private anyway, so i might as well get some value out of it. i wish there were a browser plugin called "please accept all cookies" which would just get rid of the friction, and as a downstream fringe benefit, show me better ads.
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#5in all seriousness, i'll take the contrary opinion, i love targeted ads. saves me time, and there's no way to keep my data private anyway, so i might as well get some value out of it. i wish there were a browser plugin called "please accept all cookies" which would just get rid of the friction, and as a downstream fringe benefit, show me better ads.
This browser extension doesn't work everywhere, but it works some places. You can auto-decline all cookie prompts, or if you're so inclined, auto-accept: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
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#6In this context, "my personal information" really means "Your records of my interactions with your company", right?
Re: Please Sell My Personal Information
#7in all seriousness, i'll take the contrary opinion, i love targeted ads. saves me time, and there's no way to keep my data private anyway, so i might as well get some value out of it. i wish there were a browser plugin called "please accept all cookies" which would just get rid of the friction, and as a downstream fringe benefit, show me better ads.
I agree - I mostly get ads for things I'm actually interested in (e.g. furniture), and I don't usually buy anything from them, but it at least makes me aware that there may be a new style of products available for when I next need to make a purchase. Also on occasion there will be an advert for something which I wasn't aware existed, or which shows me a new idea to consider. I'm also happy to see ads as an alternative to having to pay for access to a site.
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#8In this context, "my personal information" really means "Your records of my interactions with your company", right?
They mention credit history, so lets take financial records as an example.
Technically the complete list of things you have purchased is a record of interactions with your bank, but I think it's incredibly privacy violating for a bank to sell infomation about what products I buy.
Technically the docs to prepare a tax return is a now a record of an interaction with turbotax, but I don't think Intuit should be able to sell infomation about where I work, what charities I've donated too or what investments I have.
Being a "record of an interaction with a company" doesn't give the company the right to do what they want with it.
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#9Is this an excerpt from Faust?
Re: Please Sell My Personal Information
#10in all seriousness, i'll take the contrary opinion, i love targeted ads. saves me time, and there's no way to keep my data private anyway, so i might as well get some value out of it. i wish there were a browser plugin called "please accept all cookies" which would just get rid of the friction, and as a downstream fringe benefit, show me better ads.
Then it should be opt-in. You are free to post your personal info online.