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Today I was contacted by someone at work. She graduated school with me and our 20 year reunion was coming up. Why did she contact me at work? It was the only way they were able to track me down. I was included in promotional material by name. She told me I "was the hardest to track down"and I had to smile.

This is just a small anecdote about privacy practices and their real life impact (and how your employer can undo all of it, I guess)

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago

while i dont 100% disagree, cambridge analytica is a great example of how profiling our personality to the T can be used against us. thats not including the good points made by other posters here.

LLMs will be able to do more damage in a bigger scale, it only feels imaginary because you can't really see it with your eyes, but would you let me install a RAT on your devices?

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