Stop pretending to be Americans, y'all are not even using freedom units /s
settinmoon
joined 2 years ago
I went through their privacy agreement and personally speaking, I'm not too comfortable with them when Location and Device data is part of their data collection, as these doesn't seem to be necessary for them to provide the service.
There are also a couple of other clauses that I find concerning with their data sharing agreement:
- With third parties who may access data about you to provide you with the Services;
- In Connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business;
My problem with the first clause is that it's too vague. From my interpretation, they can potentially sell your data to any third part as long as they can make the argument such data is necessary to provide you with the "Services"
The problem with second one is in the case of this company getting bought out. Even if we trust that they are currently a privacy respecting and trustworthy entity, there is no guarantee that in the case of a future buyout the buyer is equally trustworthy (e.g. what if Intuit buys them?). With the amount of data that they know about you (e.g. spending behaviour, device / location info, government IDs etc.), this could be extremely detrimental to your data privacy in the long run.
Now whether this is the lesser evil vs giving your payment info to websites is a judgement everyone needs to make. I steered away from it because I think it consolidates too much of my online purchasing habit into one place, and it's a risk on top of all the info I already provide to my banks. I can definitely see merit if you're using one throwaway card with low credit limit on this service or using it to make purchases on websites that you don't frequent.
To reduce fingerprinting. Linux still has a relatively small user base.
Not at all. RHEL is still the standard in my field of work and I'm not seeing that going away any time soon. So it makes sense for me to stay in the ecosystem for career development. If I see any evidence of future changes in Fedora that compromises privacy or security I might change my mind.
I spoof my user agent on Linux and appears as a Windows user to websites. So I'm actually contributing to the Windows stat.
To each their own. Ideally no company should have those data that can be used for spying by any government. But if I have to choose, I personally fear government overreach more than anything else. We can agree to disagree here.
so war hasn't broken out, what's your point? Last time I checked China still isn't able to send agents to my house to arrest me, but folks here are getting misreported for CSAM to the feds by google scanning their pictures without consent.
I'm glad that you brought up the problem of foreign propaganda. I firmly believe the government shouldn't be there to tell me what kind of views I can and cannot see. Some exceptions already exist such as blatant calls for violence which we already have clear guidelines on. Other than that, government is in no place to regulate speech. What's the point of beating Russia and China when we become just like them?
Well I don't use TikTok and couldn't care less if they get banned. If you actually read the bills that's getting passed like the RESTRICT act in the US you'd realize it's not about banning TikTok and it has numerous vague and concerning clauses that infringes on your privacy. My opinion is always have better privacy laws and enforce it equally on all companies. When my government blatantly tries to steal more of my data and pretend they're actually doing me a favor I'd rather the foreign adversary have it for free.
This is actually what I wanted to say to a lot of people. During peace times, allowing a foreign adversary stealing your data is a lot less damaging to your personal freedoms than your own government stealing your data. We need to be wary every time when our own government tries to tries to introduces surveillance laws under the disguise of "national security".
"Strong opinions loosely held"
Implying you should have the courage to fight for what you believe is right but not hold onto them once you're proven wrong.
I learned this as a company culture thing from one of my previous employers and not sure if there's another source for it. I did not like that employer very much in the end but this quote has been stuck with me since and I live by it.