• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        The question was how “less price gouging” would result from a right not to have “your data harvested by default”.

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            6 months ago

            Doesn’t that seem awfully roundabout? You make the practice less effective at the price of also making beneficial uses of the data, eg for medical research, less effective.

            The mega-rich can see my tax returns if I can see theirs. The data of the rich and famous is much more valuable than mine. Let’s not pretend that this helps the little guy. The little guy doesn’t throw around money to get their flight data removed from Twitter.