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markovbot commented on LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape reason.com/2022/10/04/lap... · Posted by u/lend000

Cederfjard · 3 years ago

I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I wonder how it could translate into practice. It seems like it would be quite the boon to organized crime if you could rid yourself of a meddlesome cop simply by way of accusation.

markovbot · 3 years ago

Where do you see anyone saying anything about punishing people based just on accusations? That's not something anyone in this thread is advocating for.

markovbot commented on “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right ersei.net/en/blog/privacy... · Posted by u/d4a

Kiro · 3 years ago

Omitting the context very clearly makes it sound like they sell your personal information, when the paragraph is actually referring to disclosing the data in an M&A transaction. The "buyer" here is not a buyer of data but the buyer of the company. Even you said "from reading this blog post it seems like yet another evil company trying to suck up PII from unsuspecting victims and sell it".

markovbot · 3 years ago

It actually wasn't that particular line that made me think they were selling personal information, it was mostly the other three points in that list which you seem to be ignoring:

* Each of Onfido’s and/or Provider’s third-party vendors may have access to the facial scan data

* Onfido is in no way linked to or responsible for the practices of other Providers. Onfido encourages you to read Company’s privacy policies and terms and conditions, as well as those of other Providers, which may apply to the use of facial scan data extracted from photos and videos.

* Onfido may disclose your personal information... or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary... to protect your vital interests or those of any other person

markovbot commented on “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right ersei.net/en/blog/privacy... · Posted by u/d4a

Kiro · 3 years ago

And that's why you shouldn't trust a random blog. They completely misrepresented that paragraph. Here's the full quote:

"As part of a business transfer. Onfido may disclose your personal information to an actual or potential buyer, investor or partner (and its agents and advisers) in relation to any actual or proposed divestiture, merger, acquisition, joint venture, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or any other similar transaction or proceeding"

markovbot · 3 years ago

how is that different from what the blogpost said?

edit: to be clear, the blog post has listed, among other complaints:

> Onfido may disclose your personal information to an actual or potential buyer (note "potential")

which you seem to be confirming from your own review of their policy. What did the blog post misrepresent?

markovbot commented on “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right ersei.net/en/blog/privacy... · Posted by u/d4a

ex3ndr · 3 years ago

Onfido is state of the art service for ID verification and very trustworthy.

markovbot · 3 years ago

Then why do they have all those incredibly questionable things in their privacy policy? What makes them "trustworthy"? I've never heard of them, but from reading this blog post it seems like yet another evil company trying to suck up PII from unsuspecting victims and sell it.

markovbot commented on “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right ersei.net/en/blog/privacy... · Posted by u/d4a

junon · 3 years ago

So you're saying Privacy should reinvent the wheel with an incredibly difficult, terrible-to-manage process, itself requiring an entire company worth of people and a huge support staff, laden with insane amounts of red tape, just to perform a small function of their business, instead of contracting out another company that specializes in doing this exact thing?

This seems like a larger security/privacy surface area than the latter approach.

markovbot · 3 years ago

No, i didn't say that, nor did the post. You keep making these absurd leaps. Privacy.com advertises themselves as being private. I expect them to be private. They're the ones who chose to hinge 100% of their marketing strategy, all the way down to their name and domain, on how very private they were.

markovbot commented on “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right ersei.net/en/blog/privacy... · Posted by u/d4a

junon · 3 years ago

Using a company and having proper contracts and agreements with them to be properly protected is not malice, especially since the company is well known and assumedly adheres to regulation.

I'm not sure what you want privacy.com to do differently.

markovbot · 3 years ago

I think the ask was pretty clear: not to share confidential identification information with sketchy companies that are clearly sharing that information with everyone.

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jonathankoren · 3 years ago

July 4th occurs worldwide.

markovbot · 3 years ago

which is probably why the person you're replying to didn't say "July 4th only occurs in the US of A" but instead said "July 4th is only celebrated in the US of A"

markovbot commented on Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else academic.oup.com/restud/a... · Posted by u/cwwc

galangalalgol · 3 years ago

I wonder what the right "if everybody drove this.." is? It is probably not a lotus 7 clone. What is the smallest vehicle with superb crash test ratings?

markovbot · 3 years ago

it's probably a train

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fjfbsufhdvfy · 3 years ago

Hope the guy who down voted me enjoys paying 100-1000 times more to Amazon's egress racket!

markovbot · 3 years ago

not the one who downvoted you, but backblaze has similar pricing: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html