Why are so many companies updating their privacy policies recently?
from moonlight6205@lemm.ee to privacy@lemmy.ml on 31 May 07:10
https://lemm.ee/post/65479259

I have received emails about updates to privacy policies from at least 5 companies yesterday. What is going on? Has government done something? Is it a scheduled thing?

Edit- As most companies have started messing with data for AI training, I have proceeded to delete my accounts with them. I should have done this a long time back.

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the_abecedarian@piefed.social on 31 May 07:23 next collapse

Check for new terms about ai use of your data

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works on 31 May 07:37 next collapse

The new FCC and the hobbled Consumer Protections Board is allowing for accelerated enshittification with AI and data harvesting. Palintir is gobbling up all that data to further fuck you over.

chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 31 May 12:37 next collapse

Because the grifting is more tolerated nowadays. Its like the slow boil of the frog, they kept doing it for years and years, until people got more and more used to it, because we didnt push back enough at the right time.

So now we deal with this enshittification.

Personally I think its like a pendulum effect, it will swing back in the other direction, but it will take a long time.

Choose what you use carefully.

autonomoususer@lemmy.world on 31 May 13:35 next collapse

It don’t matter. When they get your data, nothing will ever bring that copy back. ToS never works, libre software does.

moonlight6205@lemm.ee on 31 May 13:37 collapse

I know. I redacted reddit comments and deleted the account. I have moved away (not completely) from big tech and towards FOSS.

mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works on 31 May 17:55 collapse

While this is good, everything you say here and ever said on reddit are absolutely in a database that is being formatted and scraped. These are all public forums. Assume you’re being tracked, fingerprinted and profiled.

pineapple@lemmy.ml on 01 Jun 11:35 collapse

I don’t use reddit, but I’ve always wondered why lemmy is any different. I trust the lemmy devs don’t scrape for data but since everything here is public whats stopping some malicious person from scraping every lemmy comment ever?

Ziglin@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 18:16 collapse

Nothing but if a Lemmy instance decides to do something bad others can defederate from it and the users have the ability to move to another.

It is therefore more reliable than commercial equivalents.

The only privacy benefit I see is that the servers and clients don’t sell your data or track which buttons are pressed. Though if the wrong instance/client is used that could still conceiably be problem.

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jun 06:38 next collapse

Many tech companies are headquartered in the USA, because of its relaxed regulations.

Apple, Google, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Nvidia, Qualcomn, just to name a few. And you probably know the political situation of the US. The new administration is gonna take the “relaxed regulations” to a whole new level.

Doesn’t surprise me that this is happening.

DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jun 08:08 next collapse

AI

plz1@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 08:55 next collapse

Bold of you to assume your request to delete actually does that. I guess, unless you are protected by GDPR.

Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jun 20:11 collapse

they line themselves up to fuck us all