• Fester@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    If that info is already out there, you can’t get it back. Deleting your account won’t remove it from some other data broker’s server too. You can clear out one copy of it, maybe, but not the 1000s of others that were sold already.

    Remember those racist mass text messages from… yesterday? How the fuck did someone know all those phone numbers belonged to black people specifically? And how did they get access to them? What other data do they already have? Everything is for sale. The fact you deleted an account is for sale. We are fucked.

    Everyone is about to find out why privacy is important.

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      6 days ago

      Well, fuck. Yeah you’re right. I’ll just be sure to smile at the firing squad.

      • Fester@lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        Try to be optimistic. Maybe you’ll just need to be sure to smile at your grandma when she visits you in prison while you’re serving your 10-year slave labor sentence because you didn’t scroll past that transgender furry porn fast enough.