resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@jubes Note that Amazon failed to learn from their 2018 Amazon breach: https://www.medianama.com/2018/07/223-data-buckets-with-personal-info-from-swiggy-health-startup-and-others-exposed/

@jubes Another reason to #boycott #Amazon: 100 million debit/credit card users leaked from Amazon's credit card processor (who foolishly used AWS to store the data):

@yogthos @gerowen Share this link instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20210106150051/https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/over-100-million-debit-and-credit-card-users-data-has-been-leaked-online-from-payments-processor-juspay-amazon-and-swiggy/articleshow/80096472.cms

@gerowen @yogthos 2nd time this happened. The #Amazon-Swiggy #dataleak also happened in 2018 (https://www.medianama.com/2018/07/223-data-buckets-with-personal-info-from-swiggy-health-startup-and-others-exposed/). BTW, links to businessinsider.in aren't suitable for public sharing b/c they block Tor.

i recall a scientific study that found ppl who believe conspiracy theories to have significantly lower IQs. I also recall a study finding that the average IQ of US republicans to be lower than US democrats. Those two studies coupled together have interesting consistency that's manifesting right now in Washington DC, where the RWNJs have stormed the capitol.

@kravietz With GDPR laws withstanding in the UK at the moment, it's surprising that #Equifax can say they ignore requests for data deletion if the data is detrimental to the subject. I don't recall the #GDPR having that exception, which makes the protection quite weak.

@kravietz ah, i didn't realize it was a directive. But Brits don't generally care about privacy.. e.g. culturally they see nothing wrong with a cop searching them at random or systemically without probable cause (hence why 4A exists in the US), so I'm sure it's just a matter of time before GDPR laws are revoked there.

@kravietz the CRAIN also says they have a separate database in the UK. So I guess if an American moves to the UK and demands deletion of their file, EFX will only be deleting what they have in the UK db, and only if that data doesn't show delinquency.

@kravietz Interesting to see EFX is in the UK. paragraph 11: "it will not be appropriate for the credit reference agencies to restrict or to stop processing or delete credit reference data, for example, where the result would be to hide a poor credit history" LOL. So if the data is damaging EFX won't delete it. And since the UK is no longer in the EU, the GDPR is toast.

@friend So apparently EFX can ignore GDPR requests, unless I'm missing something. kravietz just pointed out that EFX operates in the UK, which normally would imply a real need for them to obey EU law, but with #brexit behind us it seems EFX has little incentive to follow the GDPR.

@friend indeed, and it's not just EU citizens who get #GDPR protection but also all who live in the EU. So suppose an American moves to the EU & then demands that #EFX delete their data and EFX refuses. The legal battle would have to be in EU courts. If the court fines EFX, EFX has no incentive to pay, AFAIK. Which in turn means it doesn't even make sense to sue.

@deutrino It's also interesting to be in the pure text (due to Bitlbee), and then to occasionally login to the GUI and see ppls avatar, and discover that a voice is more sophisticated than the impression their avatar gives.

@deutrino Indeed the popularity contest detracts from the medium. A positive side-effect of Mastodon is the small size avoids that somewhat so far.

@deutrino apps like #bitlbee kind of have that effect. If type the command "timeline @deutrino", I only see your posts & generally decide whether to follow based on that. I agree with you sentiment- why not give admins control over default behavior like that? OTOH, some find it useful to pick through other ppls follow lists to see who is that person following that I might follow?

Is this true? "In the EU you can request that #Equifax [#EFX] delete the data they have about you" (https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13428474&cid=58143858) EFX is in the US & the #GDPR is in the EU. Does EFX also do business in the EU?

@BalooUriza looks like it's been fixed. privacytools.io admins may have blocked that account

@BalooUriza yeah I noticed accts on other nodes don't show the #Google flood. It's a consequence of the #fedi.

@irkiosan@toot.koeln i've been boycotting #Amazon for a couple yrs now. So my new year's resolution is to get others to boycott Amazon.

@rarepublic @schestowitz it doesn't make sense to give consistent treatment to inconsistent circumstances.