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I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

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I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 days ago

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.

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“That’s crazy,” said Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America

What the fuck is that title?

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