On 7/28/20 3:03 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
This was an unsettling article on discord:
https://cybernews.com/privacy/discord-privacy-tips-that-you-should-use-in-20...
Not very tempting.
It is worse or better than, say, Facebook?
It comes with a bonus -- not only does it gather data on its own, it will scrape your facebook's, twitter and about 5 other collections of friends data too. Other than starting and researching the thing, it looks like an immediate zypper rm -u candidate... I don't use social media for that matter, so I don't know how bad they are. I have a facebook account, but don't think I've logged in since 2016 or so. Never saw the value in that type platform and there isn't enough time in the day. The only Privacy statement I've seen that is worse is the pharmacy discount apps -- that have found a way to get your protected health information from you by agreement for sharing with 3rd parties that are not covered entities under the various protection laws. So if factory wants to do onboarding via an app like this -- hopefully they will find a way to do it over IRC/pidgin type apps. Relying on proprietary packages with use this type of data collection for profit is a non-starter. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.