Comment by freejazz
1 day ago
It is true that one cannot produce the data that one does not collect. I'm not sure that is a revelation.
1 day ago
It is true that one cannot produce the data that one does not collect. I'm not sure that is a revelation.
It is, with this crowd, where data is currency. I literally have solitaire games, trying to get me to create server accounts, so that the authors can extract PiD from me.
Tech is full of people that make extremely good money, from other people's personal information, and they plug their ears and sing "La-la-laaaa-I-can't-hear-yooouuu-la-la-la", when confronted with information that says what they are doing has problems. Not just techhies. That's fairly basic human nature.
This is pretty much the embodiment of Upton Sinclair's quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
For my part, I don't collect any data that I don't need; even if it makes it more difficult to do stuff like administer a server.
It's only a problem if you don't want to be legally obligated to produce it. Either way, probably paying lawyer time for a response. Not that I disagree with you at all.
It's also a problem if you actually care about your users, and don't want to expose their data, in ways that could -literally- end up putting their lives in danger.
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