• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default.

    How would that benefit the average person?

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          6 hours ago

          I don’t expect… It is already happening. Prime example are rents and wages.

          There is nothing to be done about it. Too late

          Dynamic pricing is a more current battle ground.

          All of these are fixed based on cohort specific information and with dynamic pricing it can be literally individual level data.

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            6 hours ago

            The question was how “less price gouging” would result from a right not to have “your data harvested by default”.

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              6 hours ago

              By denying corpos data, their models are less effective especially if you are salting it when ever possible.

              Do you really need Faceerh and Sundar the creep to have access to your tax returns and locations? Also, do you need them to know you like Asian women with large tits? Or that you and your friends enjoy a hobby?

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                2 hours ago

                Doesn’t that seem awfully roundabout? You make the practice less effective at the price of also making beneficial uses of the data, eg for medical research, less effective.

                The mega-rich can see my tax returns if I can see theirs. The data of the rich and famous is much more valuable than mine. Let’s not pretend that this helps the little guy. The little guy doesn’t throw around money to get their flight data removed from Twitter.

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      9 hours ago

      Send me your name, birthdate, web browsing history, online spending history, real time location, and a list of people you know and I will explain it to you.