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posted by chromas on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:59PM   Printer-friendly

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This is not a great time to be tone deaf about privacy. Between Facebook's rapid fall from grace to the grand launch of the EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy legislation next month, people are more sensitive than ever about their personal information.

Into this climate, Warsaw-based GOG -- Good Old Games, owned by CD Projekt Group -- launched a user profiles feature that many feel lacks important privacy guards, such as the ability to completely hide your profile, as well as the fact that it's opt-out rather than opt-in, and that the site announced it in a forum post (where many won't see it) rather than a blast email.

Source: GOG debuts profiles feature, users flip out


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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:28PM (2 children)

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:28PM (#671937) Journal

    I've an account there but honestly it has been so long since I logged in I can't even remember what the UI looked like. I am sure I did not give them much info, I am a paranoid SoB.

    Just because you're paranoid doesn't me they are NOT after you...

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:33AM (#671987)

    doesn't mean you won't wish you had been when they pile up the privacy invading evidence against you because you weren't paranoid enough when it counted.

    The thing about privacy, like free will, is that once you've given it up, it is almost impossible to claw it back, short of an act of god or a complete change of course of the whole of society. And if slavery in the US is any example it can take anywhere from 150-300 years to regain it, far more lifetimes than most people will remember, and have allowed all kinds of forms of institutionalized near-slavery in the meantime.

    Giving up your privacy willingly should never be considered acceptable behavior by a free person who wishes to remain free.

    • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday April 26 2018, @02:50AM

      by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Thursday April 26 2018, @02:50AM (#671997) Journal

      I was a DBA for a Teradata system installed at a large financial institution, and they participated in a national data sharing program. I'd regularly see the kind of information they could aggregate on individuals from all the participant entities and it scared me. The last thing I did before leaving that job was scrub my own name from the combines sources, and then somehow the logging clique disks covering that time frame had a catastrophic failure that coincided with the expiration of the offsite copies. I called it my Harry Harrison 'stainless steel rat' tribute. I've never used my real name online, and to this day a search on my real name is extremely sparse....
                                  Slippery Jim Degriz

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