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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now what sort of unethical corporate greed machine would do that?

  . . . All of them?

  Oh. Oh dear.

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “we use industry standard privacy practices”

    e.g. your privacy is our payday.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I usually just roll my eyes when I see that corpospeak, but now I’m going to translate it as “payday.” Thanks!

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just like they deleted it from the last provider

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• criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And for advertising so that they can bucket you accordingly.

  Gotta juice the B2B spigot for the upcoming IPO

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course, but they also derive demographic information from all the texts, links, communities you interact with.

    Now they’ll have verifiable racial characteristics to target you with customized ads that look like you. It’s definitely more effective.

    It’s a horrible company that preys on youth.

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• Lucelu2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, you need to understand, Palantir needs a library for their facial recognition software.

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