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I find this mentality, one I've often found in the US, disturbing.

I've had the benefit of living the better part of a decade in Europe where data privacy protections are stronger, and there is a resulting expectation that companies can only do with customer-provided data what they had agreed to when it was supplied. That means only using data for the explicit purpose it was gathered and not changing or using the data for expanded purposes later.

It is bizarre to me to think that one should just accept that the receiver of the data can unilaterally expand the use of it later without informed mutual agreement.



The 'mentality' is that if you don't like what the site is doing with data, you should leave the site and not use it.

Do you use Facebook from Europe? If you are not using it, then you are probably not really disagreeing with what the parent said.

I really could have done without the anti-US bigotry here, it is flamebait and not entirely related to the topic




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