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I absolutely hate when people respond to these kind of articles with "Why are people surprised". The truth is that no one is surprised. People are more disappointed, and frustrated, that this is allowed to happen, not just from a legal sense, but in a technical sense also.

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People are surprised in this thread. The truth is I run into engineers who are oblivious to this, perhaps deliberately so. Accountability for this starts with the teams building these products and choosing what to/to not include as data.

Or; what I absolutely hate is engineers outside of privacy/security acting frustrated, while collecting checks on the back of this data. Like that group of ex-Facebook Trust and Safety that founded that ludicrous and smug user protection group in Boston based on their experiences at Facebook.

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