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Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is why I think gnu taler is a great company and project

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Ask the woman and her daughter that got charged after anti abortion laws got passed and were dumb enough to use Facebook for communication.

Even assuming that MasterCard is fully intending to keep everything secure (which is impossible to guarantee), you never know how it's going to be used later on.

I mean, ffs, it's already known that multiple US agencies just buy data and use it for their purposes. It's a damn sure bet that every damn country does something similar.

De-anonymizing data is a thing. You get enough data points, and everything is right there.