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by georgeplusplus 814 days ago
How is it that no one has come up with a way to easily inform the user/customer what is being collected and for what?

My initial thought would be something along the lines of providing like an ingredients label for food but for data collected from web pages.

That would help inform the user what exactly and how pervasive the data they are collecting rather than bucketing it under a common term such as the “data”

application services should provide User accounts with exactly what about them was collected and stored in an account summary and ideally if they sold it how much they made off of it as well

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Why would they want to do this? Transparency is not in their favor.