I have received emails about updates to privacy policies from at least 5 companies yesterday. What is going on? Has government done something? Is it a scheduled thing?
Edit- As most companies have started messing with data for AI training, I have proceeded to delete my accounts with them. I should have done this a long time back.
they line themselves up to fuck us all
Many tech companies are headquartered in the USA, because of its relaxed regulations.
Apple, Google, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Nvidia, Qualcomn, just to name a few. And you probably know the political situation of the US. The new administration is gonna take the “relaxed regulations” to a whole new level.
Doesn’t surprise me that this is happening.
Check for new terms about ai use of your data
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The new FCC and the hobbled Consumer Protections Board is allowing for accelerated enshittification with AI and data harvesting. Palintir is gobbling up all that data to further fuck you over.
Bold of you to assume your request to delete actually does that. I guess, unless you are protected by GDPR.
Because the grifting is more tolerated nowadays. Its like the slow boil of the frog, they kept doing it for years and years, until people got more and more used to it, because we didnt push back enough at the right time.
So now we deal with this enshittification.
Personally I think its like a pendulum effect, it will swing back in the other direction, but it will take a long time.
Choose what you use carefully.
It don’t matter. When they get your data, nothing will ever bring that copy back. ToS never works, libre software does.
I know. I redacted reddit comments and deleted the account. I have moved away (not completely) from big tech and towards FOSS.
While this is good, everything you say here and ever said on reddit are absolutely in a database that is being formatted and scraped. These are all public forums. Assume you’re being tracked, fingerprinted and profiled.
I don’t use reddit, but I’ve always wondered why lemmy is any different. I trust the lemmy devs don’t scrape for data but since everything here is public whats stopping some malicious person from scraping every lemmy comment ever?
Nothing but if a Lemmy instance decides to do something bad others can defederate from it and the users have the ability to move to another.
It is therefore more reliable than commercial equivalents.
The only privacy benefit I see is that the servers and clients don’t sell your data or track which buttons are pressed. Though if the wrong instance/client is used that could still conceiably be problem.
