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by judge2020 1731 days ago
> the former can be trusted way more than the latter (less incentives and less capability to screw you over, and they live near you).

How is this remotely true? The stranger, after you stop paying them for the service, might spread lies about you, treat your child badly, show your child things you wouldn’t want (guns, drugs, movies, etc). The faceless corporation directly profits off the information it gains, but you can be sure the access control and security measures taken by them mean it’ll never be used to oust something embarrassing about you to your community. Only a dozen or so engineers at Google have direct database access and all of that access is logged and audited.

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"you can be sure the access control and security measures taken by them"

How could you possible write this, did you live under a rock for the past 10 years?

Big Co's have literally extorted people and leaked their sex tapes, Vigilante placed bounties on people's heads, Equifax left national databases unsecured, phone operstors have sold realtime location to the highest bigger and left the website to access it unsecured, the list goes on an on. Unbelievable!

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-shells-out-millions-of-d...