We are all in same boat. Ive gotten dozens upon dozens of letters from companies. Most even say, sorry we were hacked 8 months ago. Letting you know all your personal info was stolen.

I’m sure my social security number, work history, previous addresses, relatives, cars I owned, houses…probably how many times I shit per day also.

Just keep your credit permanently frozen until you need it. Keeps credit card offers from your mailbox also…

Anonymity is impossible with enough data to put together a profile.

Improve user experience?

I don’t give a flying fuck if a web page loads .5 seconds faster.

What u care about is an interface that works, has labels instead of symbols, that doesn’t change every month trying to be more minimalist.

A bank website doesn’t need my browser history or my charges to Amex or what pets I have or what car I drive or the color of my bedroom. But they want all that and a mobile phone number to tie it all up with a common index. VoIP numbers are refused because they change too often.

That’s what pisses me off

True. Even government websites refuse to verify you over a VoIP line.

What’s frustrating is that most sites want your phone number. Even though it’s less secure than totp, but that sweet sweet data using your phone number as a common index is irresistible

Can’t you just snip the OnStar wires?

There’s always DVDs of this stuff… Doesn’t have to be online.

They make you buy the machine… The data is collected for doctor review, but instead of letting me use the open FOSS reporting, it’s encrypted so that I can’t see my own data.

After that experience I’m certain sleep apnea machines are a huge insurance racket. 45 dollars for a replacement plastic tube…lol

For example, my sleep apnea machine had a wifi for home and a LTE modem. Data gathered by the machine was sent off-site…no reports available on the host. Privacy policy read it would gather info, run diagnostics on itself and the local network without explanation of what it was doing.

My sleep data could not be viewed by me, only through the 3rd party, so I ripped out the wifi board and LTE chip. I haul the machine into my doctor office so he can cycle through data on the tiny display.

He hates it, but I remind him he picked the machine without asking me if I agreed to to the data collection.

So many devices come with those now… I open up my products and remove the card, the antenna, or the whole board if possible.

I used to work for a data broker. The main problem here is that profiles are created and compiled from public data. There aren’t any P.I.s at work here… Just massive amounts of data dumps that anyone could access. If you include PII data like socials, then there are limitations on who can view it… But not really that hard to circumvent. A human could not possibly compile profiles from terrabytes of public data, but our programmers could… And this is the real problem. much of this data was public before current computer logic existed and no one foresaw the huge privacy implications.

For my company, only requests that come from persons living in California were honored…and only the person could request removal, not a 3rd party on behalf of the person. Sux.

And FYI, any searches for certain people would be reported to the authorities… Like if you searched Donald Trump with SSN Inclusion, we had to report it to secret service.