Privacy

The linked article is unrelated to the title but there’s and interesting quote from there:

(side note: the alt text for that image is: “Every credit card network is also a data sieve, connected to advertising data brokers, anti-fraud features, and analytics firms.” Does anyone know how to embed the alt-text with the image tags?)

Visa and Mastercard both have opt-out mechanisms whereby you can anonymously enter your card number and then that number becomes removed from their data sharing. But there’s a catch: both opt-out pages block Tor. So Visa and MC force you to share your IP address which can then become linked to your credit card number if you opt-out of sharing.

Does anyone think that can be challenged to force Visa and Mastercard to stop blocking Tor on opt-out requsts?

#askFedi #lawFedi

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10336994

I often give fake info as an extra measure of data protection. If I don’t need the data controller to have my date of birth, I give a fake one.

Well this just screwed me because I made an access request and the data controller said: to verify your identity, tell us your date of birth. Fuck me. I didn’t keep track of which fake date I gave them. I didn’t even keep track of whether I gave fake info. So they could treat my otherwise legit request as a breach attempt.

I should have kept track of the birth date I supplied. I will; from now on.

And another potential title; why some might prefer Firefox or Brave.

I will say, from a corporate setting, edge chromium has done better than I anticipated. They still throw out significant updates and changes like this without warning. But it has done better than its previous version.