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Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI?
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Why ask when you know the answer is yes?
If the product is free, you are the product. Even when it's not free, you're still the product because data is too valuable.
although a good mentality, its not always correct. Also, this isn't just about "asking", it's fighting big corps/tech to be more transparent about their policies.
And if they say "yes", if they are blatant and transparent about their business model, that will somehow make it better? This idea of "putting sunshine on a problem" never actually solves anything. The problem company just comes back with "Yeah? So? What the fuck are you going to do about it?"
Shining light on a problem is a good step to make people realize there is a problem in the first place.
Start a meme campaign targeted at countries with privacy legislations, aimed at making their future governments ask for ~~higher bribes~~ more lobbying before signing away taxpayer money to Microsoft contracts...
I mean, ideally have Microsoft rethink its approach, like Meta is rethinking its with Instagram, but let's start with something simple.