• makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    We all know that nearly all of us will be ping’d for verification. That’ll let em get our ID and add another data point. I say they’re throthing at the upcoming data rush.

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      16 hours ago

      I honestly doubt it. They’ve got very little to gain from it, and huge risk to reputation if they do it and then get hacked.

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        15 hours ago

        They don’t care about reputation in any way. It’ll be a small fine of a few million and they’ll rub their hands for that cheap data.

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          14 hours ago

          Yeah, just look at Discord. Not only harvesting data, by sharing it with “trusted partners” I was told the Esafety commissioner can bring legal action to find companies up to $850k per offence for improperly storing Australian citizens data, but I haven’t heard anything about hundreds of millions in fines against Discord yet.