• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default.

    How would that benefit the average person?

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      1 day ago

      By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.

      Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.

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        14 hours ago

        By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.

        What benefit do you expect from that?

        Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.

        Why not?

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          7 hours ago

          I prefer that the benefits of those things accrue to me, or to others, or to no one, in accordance with my choice.

          In this way, I would decide who gains the economic or social benefits of these activities of mine; and I also, in the case of personal data, would decide who gets to make my business, their business.

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      2 days ago

      Send me your name, birthdate, web browsing history, online spending history, real time location, and a list of people you know and I will explain it to you.