A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I’m a country coordinator for a SMART Recovery country other than the US.
This is highly unlikely, but I will check this out.
I find the idea that SMART would sell your data highly unlikely. SMART is privacy focused. Nick names are encouraged, you can enter zoom meetings with camera and mic silenced. SMART definitely does not collect personal data, only attendance numbers for internal statistics. SMART accepts donations from recovery organizations, but does not have any obligations towards them.
As I said, I will follow up.
Much of IT is subcontracted, so there may be the origin, and it will be looked into.
BTW, SMART’s Financials are public. You are free to check if there is income from selling your data.
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It’s almost certainly some traffic analytics package for the website.
They sound good in their marketing, they provide a bunch of useful statistics about visitors so the site can be tweaked for ease of access or to lower bounce rate.
The downside is that they often have rights to that data under their TOS because aggregation of data from multiple sites is how they provide a service.
The concern is that this data can be used to locate individual people and to learn of their associated identities. This is true even if they claim the data is “anonymized”, it’s a trivially simple process to use a second data set to correlate details and deanonymize the data.
Maybe.