Data Privacy Concerns

Commenters debate the ethics, necessity, misuse, and privacy implications of collecting and using specific user data in a product or service.

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BigData HN i.e data data isn data used data point meaningful silly make illegal matter unstructured just data

Sample Comments

suslik Jul 13, 2023 View on HN

Isn't having access to the data the whole point of this?

MaxBarraclough Jul 7, 2021 View on HN

Still horrendous. Where's that data going?

beached_whale Jan 8, 2026 View on HN

It's a misuse of the data collected

hkon May 3, 2017 View on HN

Don't worry, it's only the data that is unethical.

scep12 May 13, 2020 View on HN

That data isn't as useful as you're implying.

RyanZAG Jan 28, 2018 View on HN

Just because the data exists doesn't mean it is used.

hombre_fatal Sep 12, 2022 View on HN

You haven’t asserted how it’s bad data. Perhaps it’s also inconvenient data?

return0 Aug 3, 2013 View on HN

honestly, who cares about that data?

jcranmer Dec 14, 2022 View on HN

Getting more data is useless if it's not the right data.

overfeed Mar 25, 2025 View on HN

I'm glad to hear you are not hoovering up this data for your own purposes.