Comment by bdangubic

Comment by bdangubic 17 hours ago

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> as it just creates legal and reputational risks for them.

Unfortunately I laughed reading this as there is never neither reputation nor legal consequences in the US of A. They can leak your entire life into my console including every account and every password you have and all PII of your entire family and literally nothing would happen… everything is stored somewhere and eventually will be used when “growth” is needed. some meaningless fines will be paid here and there but those bank statements will make their way to myriad of business that would drool to see them

TeMPOraL 16 hours ago

The issue of consequences of data leaks, though real and something I find outrageous, is orthogonal to this discussion. When talking about sending personal or sensitive data to AI companies, people are not worrying about data leaks - they're worrying about AI company doing some kind of Something to it, and Somehow profit off selling their underpants.

(And yes, no one really says what that Something or Somehow may be, or how their underpants play into this.)

  • bdangubic 15 hours ago

    sorry I did not mean leak, I meant “leak”

    people should 1,000,000% be worried about AI company doing something kind of something with it which they are doing as we speak and if not now will be profiting soon-ish

YetAnotherNick 10 hours ago

There obviously is reputation and legal consequences. You can get fined for billions for a far more indirect privacy violation that what you are describing. If any big company ever does that, I won't be touching it with a 10 foot pole. And no I don't believe using data for showing me ad is on the same level of privacy violation.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...

  • bdangubic 5 hours ago

    fining facebook 5bn is like fining me $100. and reputation… please… we all know facebook what facebook is/does, they can release secretly recorded phone calls you are making and it’ll be news for like 17 minutes and people will then keep doomscrolling etc