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> UFO also claimed its logs were kept for traffic-performance monitoring only

When your product's sole purpose is to provide privacy, there's no excuse in the world good enough to knowingly retain logs like this. There needs to be a class-action lawsuit to curb douchebag businesses like this.

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As Bruce Schneier says.... Data is the toxic waste of the modern era... you just know sooner or later it's going to leak.

Don't collect it if you don't need it. Destroy it as soon as possible if you do.

"No, no, but GDPR bad!!11 We care about your privacy that's why we collect all the data we can, sell it to everybody and store your passwords in plaintext" As said by several ad-supported businesses and especially ad-networks.

99% of critizism against GDPR I've seen is either about how it's poorlt implemented (but still a good idea in principle) or about cookie banners (which are note ven GDPRs fault though); I don't think I've ever seen anybody complain that the whole concept of GDPR is bad.

That's part of the joke.

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