Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it’s already been discussed!)
Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?
Personally, I’m getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It’s been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.
You do rent out your personal data. That’s how you pay for free services.
There is no rental agreement there. They straight up take your data. You should have a right who can take and use your data.
According to GDPR they must remove your data if you requires so.
No, you agree to them harvesting your data when you use the service. TANSTAAFL
You can’t just go “whoops you clicked our link, we’re harvesting all your data now whether you like it or not!”
All of those services have terms and privacy policies that you are more than welcome to read, disagree with, and decide to not use the service.
I can’t personally recall Google Data Collection Agents bursting into my home and stealing all my data, but perhaps they also wiped my memory or something.
Except sometimes you can’t not use the service.
It’s completely unreasonable to expect people to quit their job just because they disagree with the terms and conditions of a single piece of software they’re required to use for work. If that service is collecting their data, there’s basically nothing they can do about it.
If you use a service for job needs, this is not your data, this is your employer data. And it can request a removal as well. Moreover, corporate contracts usually are not ad based.
I looked it up, if a consumer opts out of the sale of personal information, the business must refrain from selling the personal information collected by the business and respect the decision to opt out for at least 12 months before requesting that the consumer opt-in to the sale of their personal information. This is required by current U.S. law.