I think something people are ignoring is the transparency here. I'm not defending Google or Facebook for collecting this data, but the fact that it is easily accessible by the user is a good thing. How many other services do people use that collect swaths of data, yet refuse...
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...to disclose any of what is being collected upon a user's request? Telecom providers, ISPs, even credit card companies and banks can and do track your activity when you use their services, and good luck asking for an archive of that data. Anyone...
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...who has a mobile device and is connected to a network has their location data being continuously logged by their telecom provider, with no option to opt out. Any purchase you make in a store with a credit or debit card places you at that location buying specific goods, and...
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...you can guarantee there is a vast profile being constructed on you regarding such information. There is zero transparency with these services, and zero opportunity to view these databases by the user. While it is easy to focus the blame, perhaps the...
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...narrative should shift to a dialogue about a user's right to data transparency and the legal right to request and access said data by the user in question. I think if this was a protected legal right, and companies were forced to be more transparent...
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...with the data they are collecting on their userbase whilst providing a pathway for a user to access the data that has been collected on them, we could better arm ourselves to force companies to change their nefarious practices.
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You'd have a lot more credibility about this if you stopped sending it from the world's worst invaders of privacy and murderers of critics.
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He's in Russia not the US
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I wish Kurt was bright enough to get your jab

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He blocked me. Already.
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I see the way to download a copy but you stated copy. Can it be deleted? Such as a Facebook account deleted? Or is that never deleted? Damn. I need answers!
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You can download the copy but you will never remove the original data. Anything that we upload to internet it can’t be removed... shame I know! And you can delete permanently the account on Facebook it takes 14days. I already removed mine...
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Deleting your Facebook account says nothing about how they will use your old data in the future.
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But at least you are not adding to the pile anymore.
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Before my step dad died, he left me a voicemail on my phone and something happened and I lost voicemail. I went into the phone store, crying and the store clerk could not retrieve it, facebook and google has that voicemail stored somewhere? A**holes
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They 'just' logged the details (I.e time, date, duration, who to etc) of phone calls and messages, not the actual content.
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That makes me feel better. I would be devastated if they had his voicemail. Somedays I really like to hear his voice
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That is the thrust of "Black Mirror" Season 2 Ep 1 "Be Right Back".
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