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1. Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:41 JST Milcom Miasma

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   • Aral Balkan
   • Professor_Stevens

   @Professor_Stevens @aral

   I'm not acquainted but I'm now following him (thanks for the pointer.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation
     • Professor_Stevens

     @mmiasma @Professor_Stevens Sadly, the situation in the US isn’t great. (I mean it’s not great anywhere but at least here the GDPR affords us some rights and privacy is seen as a human right.)

     I’m afraid I don’t even know where you’d start with this one. A lawyer isn’t going to help unless you have a specific corporation in mind and, even then, they’re likely acting within the (fucked up) law.

     As @Professor_Stevens said, best thing is to work for systemic change. In the US, maybe support @eff?

   • Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:42 JST Professor_Stevens

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     • Aral Balkan

     @mmiasma

     Don't know if you two are acquainted, but our Mastodon peer @aral clearly knows a lot about this kind of stuff.

   • Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:43 JST Milcom Miasma

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     • Professor_Stevens

     @Professor_Stevens

     Thanks - I'll take a look around and see who's doing what.

   • Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:44 JST Milcom Miasma

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     I don't want compensation or another credit monitoring service that I have to watch for their screw-up. I want them to no longer be allowed to collect or store my data. PERIOD.

     I'm thinking of getting a lawyer involved and would appreciate any insight or feedback you have on consumer data protection rights and responsibilities. I'm old, ornery and have the free time for a new hobby I guess.

     We have enough trouble with cyber-crime, we don't need these idiots helping them.

     #DataSecurity

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   • Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:44 JST Professor_Stevens

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     @mmiasma

     Whenever I look at a policy question of that magnitude, I look for existing institutions that are advocating for the consumer. No need for you to fight a battle like this on your own. This will ultimately be a political question, answered with regulatory language.

     Alas, since the big corps can pay lobbyists, the big corps actually draft a lot of that language themselves. To counter that, you need to be part of something just as big.

     Don't start a fight. Join one.

   • Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:11:45 JST Milcom Miasma

     Once more into the breach.

     For the second time in six months I just received a letter notifying me that a company has had a data breach and my information was compromised.

     This time it was Ticketmaster; A company I haven't done business with in over 15 years. Earlier this year it was Loan Depot who we've never done business with.

     Why do we allow companies to retain our information and gather new information about us once they've shown they can't properly safeguard it?

     #DataSecurity

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