I imagine that for some companies it is difficult, and to the extent that I feel a 'sense of justice' about it, I would hope that my efforts help the organization (or single person, acknowledging that) set up a process to handle this.
I'm *genuinely* not trying to be abusive though. It's *extremely important* that consumers have the ability to exercise their data and privacy rights.
I'm not that old (mid 30s), but genuinely much of the data I have on the internet was put there when I was an actual child. And it's still there. This is actually one of the first times I've posted in *years* online. I really want to delete *almost everything*. Note in my OP, I said I worked at Google. I quit, because although I actually think ad targeting and the surveillance network are actually okay-ish, I wanted to opt-out myself, on both ends. So far, this decision has cost me 250k USD personally (if I calculate out the opportunity cost since I quit, just so far). And for the websites/apps I do still use, I donate some amount of money per year. OK, maybe I'm a freak, I really do think this stuff is important.
What would you suggest I do? Leave all my data online? As I said, in my cases, I was an actual child (those COPPA things did nothing to stop me), and this is, so far, a really effective way at getting places to delete my data. Maybe it's because they're "scared" of the law, but you know, then the law is working. Before, nobody responded to my deletion requests, and many websites had no option to delete. As a libertarian-ish person, this is a clear win for the consumer in terms of "coercive power of the state being used to create a framework that increases net freedom".
I am open to being wrong though! Let me delete all of my data first though so I don't have to do this again.
(Same person, another throwaway, my bad.)
I imagine that for some companies it is difficult, and to the extent that I feel a 'sense of justice' about it, I would hope that my efforts help the organization (or single person, acknowledging that) set up a process to handle this.
I'm *genuinely* not trying to be abusive though. It's *extremely important* that consumers have the ability to exercise their data and privacy rights.
I'm not that old (mid 30s), but genuinely much of the data I have on the internet was put there when I was an actual child. And it's still there. This is actually one of the first times I've posted in *years* online. I really want to delete *almost everything*. Note in my OP, I said I worked at Google. I quit, because although I actually think ad targeting and the surveillance network are actually okay-ish, I wanted to opt-out myself, on both ends. So far, this decision has cost me 250k USD personally (if I calculate out the opportunity cost since I quit, just so far). And for the websites/apps I do still use, I donate some amount of money per year. OK, maybe I'm a freak, I really do think this stuff is important.
What would you suggest I do? Leave all my data online? As I said, in my cases, I was an actual child (those COPPA things did nothing to stop me), and this is, so far, a really effective way at getting places to delete my data. Maybe it's because they're "scared" of the law, but you know, then the law is working. Before, nobody responded to my deletion requests, and many websites had no option to delete. As a libertarian-ish person, this is a clear win for the consumer in terms of "coercive power of the state being used to create a framework that increases net freedom".
I am open to being wrong though! Let me delete all of my data first though so I don't have to do this again.