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by jjeaff 3147 days ago
They essentially all say "tell" their users where they are getting the data. It's in the privacy policy. But people don't read it.
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Exactly. Informing the user does nothing except maybe clear your conscience. Expecting the user to extrapolate to how you will use that data, what will be inferred from it, what risks come with centralizing and storing it, all of that is not the users job. It’s the job of the collector to be as conservative as possible. Any company that treats users privacy as a resource to be extracted is not somewhere I want to work.