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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lyxea@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 
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[–] musicalcactus@midwest.social 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why are they collecting financial information??

[–] Lyxea@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they want everything... even they got banned in Europe because of this

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They weren't banned, they just preemptively pulled out because they knew they couldn't pull this shit in europe.

[–] Lyxea@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] waz 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Available in the U.K. Brexit was such a bad idea. Smh

[–] Sheltac@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this what convinced you of that?

[–] waz 5 points 1 year ago

I knew that a long time ago, it’s just one more thing

[–] crscardellino@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Biometric data.

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.

Because of in app purchases and commerce? Of all the things in this list that is the least surprising.