skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has been working in security for a long time, and has seen how the sausage is made at even the biggest, most reputable companies who “take security very seriously”, the “strictest possible protection of that data” means approximately nothing. The only serious way to protect sensitive data is not to take it in the first place. Hell, not even the NSA can keep a lid on their sensitive data.

”For people who think this is still wrong, I'm curious what their pragmatic alternative is. How else are app developers supposed to analyze their app performance?”

Remember, customers first, your “needs” come second. That goes double when they are placing their trust in you by allowing you to be a custodian of their data.

Not long ago, desktop software phoning home would have been a scandal. Not long before that, it was offline and couldn’t phone home. Yet, we still had software. Unfortunately, developers have taken the slipperly slope all the way to outright abuse of their privileges in order to collect information that customers don’t know about or understand. This has led us to things like GDPR. It doesn’t matter if your intentions are good or your usage is benign. It isn’t yours to begin with, those aren’t your decisions to make, and developers need to learn to seriously respect that.
> It's become clear over the last year there is a strong need for a data privacy regulatory agency in US government.

I wouldn't trust a governmental regulatory agency to aggressively fulfill it's mission. My impression is that in general they're too much at the mercy of politicians.

I suspect a more effective strategy is to enact legislation that makes companies liable under civil law, with private citizens empowered to sue.
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Schools are for educating, not for prohibiting or judging. If you believe vaping is bad for kids or whoever - educate them about why do you think so and let them decide for themselves.

When I was a schoolboy everybody believed kids that smoke don't grow as they get older, nobody wanted to become a gnome :-)

If there is a real health threat we are to be able to explain it to the children, if there isn't - we probably should just let the do what they want.
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They probably don't even know. The AI which learned on the data doesn't necessarily has labels, it just connects the dots.
> Open boarders

Is that a new term for nautical piracy now that “piracy” has been stolen for copyright infringement?
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Is Cage's 4'33" unmusic? Are the birds, tweeting birds songs, unmusic? I think you're confusing only musical styles that you recognize as music for the whole world of music we are surrounded by.
Or don't use Grindr.
The branding of those stations is the core problem, no?

Says ABC/NBC/Fox - but actually that's just a logo.

Why not have them clearly labeled as Sinclair, then consumer would know. And maybe still be fine with it.

This way it's indeed shady.
You should not blindly believe whatever Trump says

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> regulation hampers growth

Is there proof of this? Some countries like Germany and Sweden are both highly regulated and have fastest economic growth in the West.
I think it depends on your reasoning for not sharing data to third parties.

It seems like you're arguing that sharing data is wrong because, in the wrong hands, the data could be used to personally identify someone. In my mind, these are the ways that can happen:

1. The data is sent to an advertiser who can target based on that data. Seems possible, so it's relevant that this data isn't being shared with an ad firm.
2. The data is sent to a third party, whose employees can access and leak the data.
3. The data is sent to a third party, whose data gets compromised.

So the trade-off is, what is the value of having user information in a tool for analytics purposes, versus the chance that (2) or (3) (or any unknowns happen)? My argument is that analytics firms are not in the business of leaking or selling data; their business hinges on their client's data privacy. So to me, this seems like a reasonable trade-off for certain types of data.

As for whether HIV status is the type of data that's unreasonable... I can buy that argument either way. I've never used Grindr but I can imagine it being extremely relevant to its users. And any data that has product impact is useful in an analytics setting. For example, if Grindr has some features that make it easier for HIV-positive or negative people to filter, then they'd be interested in understanding whether it's being used in the product. Then again, I can equally see them deciding it's not worth the risk, and removing it.

If you think sharing sensitive data is wrong under all circumstances, on principle, then you're entitled to your beliefs, but that would seem to me awfully close to religion.
No obviously I don't mean you review a person's paper and they review yours - use your common sense, mate.

I mean if you publish a paper and get four reviews, you then review another four papers at some point - perhaps at an entirely different conference later that year. You just make sure you review at least 4n papers for each n papers you publish.
Feel like the system should be made of layers. A rational one that follows lanes and rules and such but also a more reptilian backup system that self-preserves. The latter can't be used all the time because of danger to others but it's similar to the evasive moves someone would take in danger.

This same pattern of trying to make a perfect system instead of multiple layers by acknowledging lack of perfection exists quite a bit in tech.
> committed to the Church.

Which one? There are several, with radically divergent interests.
If you are using Grindr on Android, install and use NetGuard.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.ne...

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

NetGuard is an open source local VPN that allows you to block DNS lookups to prevent calls to 3rd parties, and it does not require root access.

Calls to all of the 3rd parties mentioned are blockable. Grindr does not need many domains to be operational to work, just their own domains (.grindr.com on 443, grindr.mobi on 443) and a couple of Google static domains like csi.gstatic.com on 443 .

Of course this does not prevent Grindr from rolling up the data and sharing that with 3rd parties, but the linked analysis suggests that this is all via the app making calls rather than the company selling it in bulk.
How does that compare to say Mastodon?
I'm using php-fpm with all production services since 2012 (mainly with nginx, but also with apache), never experienced any problems, so I'd highly recommend trying it out.
If one is HIV positive it would probably be a draw of the app to find only others who are also afflicted. Turning it off might result in some illegal decisions.
Systematically destroying the trust in all other sources of truth so that you are the only source of truth is a dangerous tactic that is used to consolidate power in the minds of a population. This argument needs to be called out any time its used and by anyone that uses it. I am on the left, if any democrat used this argument to gain power I would call them out.
I don't think you'll find total agreement on what behavior is considered ethical, particularly in this product space.
It is blocked in Turkey.
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Someone has to pay for your service. This can either be your users or a 3rd party. We know the overall acceptance of paying for online services is fairly low. Even high quality news outlets have problems monetising their content. In this case you're also competing with "free" services like FB. Unless you can offer something that is enough of an incentive for people to pay, this is not a battle you can win. What's more, social networks live and die by the network effect. People will be even less likely to pay for your service if there is no one already on it they know. In the end, you are choking off your growth through the higher barrier of entry before you can even get to the phase of a positive feedback loop in user numbers.

This only leaves the 3rd party option. But someone like that will always want something in return, and the only thing that you have to offer is access to your users and their data.
At least with platforms such as Steam, the problem is one of porting the platform to each distribution, not all its applications.
Just as some people pay for fastmail I am pretty sure there'd be some people paying an entrance fee to a social network.

Wasn't the social network of last week, vero, supposed to be like that ?
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The first that comes to mind is the Federal Trade Commission Act, which allows the FTC to charge companies which fail to protect consumer personal data.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the quiz app just a way to gain access to a user's data? So it wasn't so much the content of the quiz that was revealing, just the access to data it provided.
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The quiz app wasn't the real data source though was it? People who want to take the quiz have to press "yes" on a menu that vaguely mentions "We need your friends list" and things like that, and those permissions were used to harvest the data as far as I understood, not the quiz itself.
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It's also 100% owned now by a Chinese software company, so might as well assume everything you share there is visible to the Chinese gov't while you're at it.
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The funding in that bill was over 10 years, with very little up front. It was also missing key immigration reforms that Trump said he needed to see.

He is pretty clear about what he wants to see, and I’m pretty sure that he sees no deal as better than a bad deal. He’d rather keep the issue in play through mid-terms, or collect some additional policy points (gun control?) that he can throw in the mix to ultimately craft a bill that achieves his core policy objectives around national defense and immigration.

I think immigration policy will be the big issue for the midterms, it will be interesting to see it all play out.
> a more effective strategy is to enact legislation that makes companies liable under civil law

Agree. But there is still a role for a public prosecutor to (a) collect complaints and (b) launching suits on behalf of the public, for when violations occur and no private action ensues.
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I recommend https://longform.org
I gave Planet Money a shot but found the two hosts nearly unbearable and the typical NPR heavy-handed production and jumpy editing distracting.

They try so desperately to make the topics sound fun/accessible that it ends up sounding like a disingenuous forced comedic act rather than a natural, education conversation with the guests...I guess I'm not the target audience for this.

But I love the book recommendations. I plan to read that Kessler book tonight.