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by Genghis_Khan 1031 days ago
> You can't be pro-privacy and simultaneously believe ...

You gave information to LI, trusting that they wouldn't disclose it to people you wouldn't want to have it. Meanwhile, untrustworthy third parties were free to view that very same information. Blame LI for being casual with data about you. Blame yourself for trusting LI. Don't blame others for reading what they were free to read.

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That's simply wrong -- this went well beyond HiQ could read.

HiQ's claim is that LI shouldn't be allowed to prevent HiQ from reading data that I had no intention or interest in sharing with HiQ, simply because LI makes it available to other LI users. It's wildly anti-privacy to claim that because I shared data with LI, and LI put some piece of it on the website, that HiQ has a right to read it and use it for arbitrary things.