• wirehead@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      More to the point, the company using shady means to collect the data does not need to care if the data is useful, just that it’s marketable.

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      2 months ago

      A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.