DogsAreEverywhere@feddit.it to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agowhat do companies do with your phone number ?message-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up188arrow-down1message-squarewhat do companies do with your phone number ?DogsAreEverywhere@feddit.it to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
I have a question, what do companies do with your phone number ? can they trace who you are and what you do ?
minus-squaremiss_brainfart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoWouldn’t it be funny if the law were to order them to periodically send people a copy of all that data?
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoIn many places companies are already required to do so on request. Which is why data brokers regularly change their names. If you don’t know who they are, you can’t request your data or ask to have it purged.
minus-squaremiss_brainfart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoExactly, on request. But what if we forced them to do so automatically, without it having to be requested? They’d come up with the most wild and hilarious excuses, wouldn’t they
Wouldn’t it be funny if the law were to order them to periodically send people a copy of all that data?
In many places companies are already required to do so on request. Which is why data brokers regularly change their names. If you don’t know who they are, you can’t request your data or ask to have it purged.
Exactly, on request. But what if we forced them to do so automatically, without it having to be requested?
They’d come up with the most wild and hilarious excuses, wouldn’t they