• 555@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The timeline of every company:

    we don’t collect data

    we collect data but don’t sell it

    we only share your data with our “partners,” no you can’t have a list.

    we have your data, and now we are going to change our policies so that we can sell it to anyone. Whatever we said in the past is void. We’ve been collecting and selling this entire time.

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        I wonder how many of them just wanted to sell the data, so they did and claimed to have been hacked to get by without appearing to have violated the TOC.

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          They want to show off to shareholders how much money they are bringing in.

          If they do it that way they are risking securities fraud with no way to juice the stock price.

          Securities fraud is one of the ways rich dudes can see real jail time because they are taking money from other rich dudes.

          I don’t see it.