In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.

  • @[email protected]
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    341 year ago

    It is. They know everything about you. Even every store you have shopped at knows a lot about you. It really doesn’t take much interaction for a company to get a lot of info. It’s relatively easy to get an email and from there, if they wanted, they can get the rest of your profile from a 3rd party who has your data all matched up already. They can also build your profile pretty easily themselves as well.

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      1 year ago

      How can regular people buy this data?

      Say I wanted to find out what my profile looks like?

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I imagine “you” can’t

        you’d likely have to work for some marketing agency and can probably only buy user data in bulk amounts (based on region, or some other desired demographic) with a recurring business plan of course

        it wouldn’t be financially beneficial for these companies to sell an individual thumbprint

      • Scew
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        91 year ago

        Yes. I would like this info as well if anyone has it .

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          If you’re in the US, you can demand a company release the information they have on you, to you, for inspection. It’s more data than you’d think. A LOT more.

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        11 year ago

        You have the right to request access to inspect the personal information a company stores on you. At least, in the US. And I believe the UK and EU as well but I can’t speak as much to those.

        If you want to be truly terrified (or enlightened, however you prefer to think of it), pick any big company that you’ve used and request all the data they have stored on you. The amount of data they’ll have is STAGGERING. Certainly hundreds of pages, possibly thousands. It’s insane.

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      91 year ago

      It’s never too late. Sure, they already have a lot of data on you but you can keep them from getting more.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Definitely. I’m was trying to state that basic info about you is readily available to companies regardless of how you choose to interact with them.