Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data

• moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you connect to the internet from 2 or 3 different locations, the hashed email will be the same, so they just need to compare the locations to those from another service like Instagram and they know who you are and what you’re streaming.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And? Why should we care? If I’m already using instagram and other social media platforms that we all know do this, I am clearly ok with it aren’t I?

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    • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Companies want your money. The more they know about you, the more possibilities they have to get it. You don’t know what the political landscape may look like down the road. You may feel safe now, but that can change quickly. Imagine you suddenly need to pay back money to the copyright owners unless you can prove you already did?

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And just like that we’re at silly made up hypothetical situations to drive fear and an agenda. That’s not even worth entertaining.

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• qqq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have no skin in this game, but IPs are definitely not anonymous data. Also there is a lot of great info out there about de-anonymizing seemingly random data. Interestingly enough, this is essentially the Netflix prize dataset that was one of the more famous ones.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idunno why you don’t think having an unique hash attatched to your data is no biggie. Especially if that hash is easily cracked in a few years by quantum computers.

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  • qqq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nobody is gonna be using a quantum computer to “crack email hashes” of Plex users in a few years… I’m not even sure there is a speedup to hash cracking with quantum computers.

    But depending on the hashing algorithm used, it’s likely pretty easy to crack hashes of email addresses today with a normal computer. They’re not particularly high entropy.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s an email address, it doesn’t matter lol

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    • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just say you don’t care about privacy and having all your data out there for anyone to do anything they want with.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “All your data” lol

        I care about my actual private data. My email that I hand out to dozens of sites isn’t that. What movies/tv shows of Plex’s - not my collection - isn’t that. It’s definitely not an issue when it’s opt-in like this is.

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