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good thing we don't live in a country too corrupt to pass a modern internet privacy law or regulate data brokers

wired.comMuse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and FamilyMillions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

5/10/26, 2:04 pm70 reposts243 likes

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

(touches earpiece)

Ben the Hammerhead

@benhammerhead.bsky.social

All for the convenience of getting the ~right~ suggestions of what to get Debra for her open house party Marketing Data & Profiling Marketing and the Banality of Evil

cooper.eurosky.social

@cooper.eurosky.social

It always strikes me when digital products aren’t available in the EU. Makes me wonder what they’re doing with the data that they don’t want the EU to fine them for.

Former Buff Toddler

@jeanmchl.bsky.social

That and leaving credit agencies and chexsystems open by default for ease in identity theft seems almost on purpose.

Catherine Ousselin

@catherineousselin.bsky.social

I cannot imagine that the E.U. will allow any of this to fly. My envy of government regulations that protect E.U. citizens leads me to consider using VPN. Would that be an option?

Matt

@notdanish.bsky.social

EU wants to scan all chat messages for crimes. All, even end to end encrypted. So their rhetoric about privacy is hot air.

Science works.

@herrwillhelm.bsky.social

I shouldn't be, but I am surprised by how many people would actually allow this hot trash into their digital lives.