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Companies that obtain and sell your user information should have to pay you royalties. Agree or disagree? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by K3zi4@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it's already been discussed!)

Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?

Personally, I'm getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It's been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.

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[-] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Well, partial good news for you, friend! (Assuming you're in the US)

California's new CPRA law went into effect at the start of the year. As part of that law, CA residents can request to see their data, be deleted or edit it. Since it's hard to validate whether someone is actually a resident or not, most places just allow everyone to do those things now.

But there are some big caveats. One is that getting access to your data can be complicated. There's a risk of, e.g. an evil-ex requesting your info in order to stalk you, so some places will just confirm or deny the info you send. "Do you have my name? How about this email address?", etc, but you can't say "Gimme everything for ".

You can ask for all your personal data to be deleted. But the law says to delete everything... Which includes the fact that you made such a request, so the next time data about you arrives, the company has no record to indicate they should not collect it.

It's a start.

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