• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Our privacy was long gone well before AI companies were even founded, if people cared about their privacy then none of the largest tech companies would exist because they all spy on you wholesale.

    In the US. The EU has proven that you can have perfectly functional privacy laws.

    If your reasoning is based o the US not regulating their companies and so that makes it impossible to regulate them, then your reasoning is bad.

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      16 hours ago

      My reasoning is based upon observing the current Internet from the perspective of working in cyber security and dealing with privacy issues for global clients.

      The GDPR is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t guarantee your digital privacy. It’s more of a framework to regulate the trading and collecting of your personal data, not to prevent it.

      No matter who or where you are, your data is collected and collated into profiles which are traded between data brokers. Anonymized data is a myth, it’s easily deanonymized by data brokers and data retention limits do essentially nothing.

      AI didn’t steal your privacy. Advertisers and other data consuming entities have structured the entire digital and consumer electronics ecosystem to spy on you decades before transformers or even deep networks were ever used.