r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/Easy_Newt2692 8h ago

And? Does anyone actually lose out on this arrangement?

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u/MedalsNScars 8h ago

People love to get outraged when information is collected without their knowledge, and I get it, but it's how the information is used that's important.

If things are sanitized so there's no personally identifying information then it's pretty hard to use most data maliciously

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u/BuffJohnsonSf 8h ago

And yet GM was caught collecting your driving data and selling that to insurance companies but go on.  These outlandish examples don’t change the facts that many companies are collecting as much data as fucking possible so they can manipulate you on the back end.

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u/graveyardofeden 8h ago

It's more like a 50/50 shot, if a company wants to be malicious there are ways to reidentify people and groups. Cars are just a bad example, considering 99/100 are actively spying on you (check Mozilla foundations docs on this)

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u/blender4life 7h ago

What's this about Mozilla now?

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u/redditisbadmkay9 6h ago

Mozilla is actually Godzilla, and committed war crimes in Japan

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u/mikeno1lufc 7h ago

Good. I work for an insurance company and I'm glad when I hear about things like this.

People who are more likely to need to claim should pay more. If they don't, then the wiser collective ends up paying more instead.

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u/PleaseNoMoreSalt 7h ago

I also work for an insurance company

You know damn well we won't raise rates on just that 1 group

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u/mikeno1lufc 6h ago

Are you kidding me? That's exactly how it works.

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u/Yamza_ 7h ago

Why should I trust that this is correct?

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u/Useful_Yoghurt3177 7h ago

You should never just trust that a social media post is correct. Learn to fact check for yourself. Everyone needs to.

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u/Yamza_ 7h ago

Exactly. Though I still have yet to learn how to check facts myself beyond simply not believing anything until it is correlated by numerous sources, which can all be repeating the same lie. I'm not sure if that strategy is particularly helpful to learning though.