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[-] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago

“Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things,” Huffman said. “We are not in the business of giving that away for free.”

Wow. Clearly Reddit now believes that they own all of the conversations that people have had on the site. That explains why they've also been restoring comments that people have deleted when leaving the site. That has major implications for data security, privacy, and even safety in some situations.

This episode has revealed Reddit's true colors, and they're not pretty.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Imagine if phone companies started selling our conversations without giving us a cent for the content.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Is that where Google Maps gets traffic data from?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes and no. Google definitely uses location data to improve traffic details, but GPS has always been able to get some level of data about it, despite being mostly a one way system. I don't really remember the details, I'll try to dig out an article

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Don't a lot of calls get recorded now anyway? (I'm just asking, I don't actually know)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not without the consent of at least one party to the call, no. Unlike most forms of invasive spying, that one is illegal in many jurisdictions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh my sweet summer child.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm talking about businesses here. Government security agencies generally aren't bound by law or morality at all.

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