Yep. I wrote about why this data is so valuable. And why we had absolutely no defense to stop this. I may even finish it one day! Haha - ThreadSky

tressiemcphd.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Yep. I wrote about why this data is so valuable. And why we had absolutely no defense to stop this. I may even finish it one day! Haha

Reposted from Kara Swisher

This is the game. Unite and then manipulate the data for whatever mischief you want to do www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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katajanmarja.bsky.social•3 days ago

Please do . Very interesting.

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is suffices to say that after 15 years of both democrat and Republican administrations treating treating data as instrumental instead of rights and responsibilities, we were defenseless.

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

But the real culprit here is the way we handed all of our data over to the marketplace and have treated successively more dire data breaches as an inevitable consequence of living in the information age. Now we are supposed to care that our data has been stolen and consolidated for sale?

jonreilly1313.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bought, sold, and brainwashed.

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

How many times have you been left feeling powerless after some company emails you to say that your data may have been stolen in a data breach or is now available on the dark web? The only option for you then is to just be vigilant. No authority. No consequences

jakecummings.bsky.social•3 days ago

The last time this happened to me, it was a company I had never even heard of!

"We had something of yours without you knowing, and then we lost it"

We are squarely in the Era of Malicious Pratfalls

ghostyspook.bsky.social•3 days ago

I will never stop being mad about equifax

ghostyspook.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is so real. I’ve lost count of the data breaches! I had one last year that leaked some very old accurate data and there is just absolutely nothing you can
Do about it but lock your credit down entirely?

sewblue.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for posting. This has been my rant for years. Congress could have enacted legislation. But didn't. So many times.

mrdys.bsky.social•3 days ago

The most frustrating thing about this shoulder shrugging from companies is that most of them have to comply with GDPR anyway. I know they know how to do it. They just don’t want to.

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

So 20 years of your most important asset in the digital economy being treated like a CVS receipt and refusing to empower consumers by treating our data as citizenship rights, and some of the highest quality identifiable data is now for sale.

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

The fool is a fool but he isn’t a completely dummy.

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

I kept saying to people, how do you sound the alarm about data now? After two decades of conditioning us not to care??

You don’t.

davidgodoy.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Here’s a free monitoring tool…so you can watch them do it”

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