Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoData Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Usersgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down14cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.caprivacy@lemmy.world
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minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·22 hours agoHow would they know any of it is accurate? Doesn’t matter. Advertisement has never been about truth.
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·22 hours agoActually, this raises more questions. If ZoomInfo is anything to go by, I’m about 5 different people, none of which accurately map to the real me. And that’s just me; there’s millions of bots and dogs on the Internet.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoI think the scariest thing going forward isn’t some alphabet agency finding your anti-social messages. It’s some shitbox algorithm having a false positive and deicing you’re a threat to the regime.
How would they know any of it is accurate?
Doesn’t matter. Advertisement has never been about truth.
Actually, this raises more questions. If ZoomInfo is anything to go by, I’m about 5 different people, none of which accurately map to the real me.
And that’s just me; there’s millions of bots and dogs on the Internet.
I think the scariest thing going forward isn’t some alphabet agency finding your anti-social messages. It’s some shitbox algorithm having a false positive and deicing you’re a threat to the regime.