Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Sharing

Gambling firms and Meta sharing user data (theguardian.com)
Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.

Privacy, Data Sharing, Social Media, Gambling, Facebook

25 points by 4ndrewl 14 days ago | 3 comments

Tell HN: Google Pay automatically opts you in for 3rd party data sharing (ycombinator.com)
Today I noticed that Google Pay will recheck the "Share that you have Google Pay with companies outside Google" option every time I updated my payment information.

Privacy, Google Pay, Data Sharing

11 points by pera 35 days ago | 0 comments

Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps (theverge.com)
Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava’s look, and place a ban on using data “for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications.”

Privacy, Data Sharing, Fitness Apps, Artificial Intelligence

59 points by thunderbong 94 days ago | 17 comments

PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores (paypal.com)

Privacy, PayPal, Data Sharing

296 points by xyst 133 days ago | 137 comments

Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties (abc.net.au)
Popular car brands are collecting and sharing driver data from braking patterns and odometer readings to vehicle location and voice recognition information, consumer advocacy group Choice has found.

Data Privacy, Consumer Advocacy, Automotive Industry, Data Sharing

80 points by adrian_mrd 137 days ago | 54 comments

We need to build the GitHub of scientific data (vishnurnair.substack.com)
I was reading this article published in 2017. It had a bold claim. A scientific dataset's odds of being available drop by 17% each year. That's not just bad. It's a crisis.

Data Sharing, Scientific Research, Open Source

17 points by vishnurnair 149 days ago | 14 comments

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter' (theregister.com)
Privacy campaigners are criticizing UK proposals to force banks to share data from the accounts of government benefit claimants, saying the ploy amounts to "a financial snoopers' charter targeted to automate suspicion."

Privacy, Government, Finance, Data Sharing, UK

17 points by rntn 149 days ago | 5 comments

California passes bill requiring easier data sharing opt outs (therecord.media)

California, Privacy, Legislation, Data Sharing

6 points by annoyingnoob 177 days ago | 1 comments

USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap (techcrunch.com)

Privacy, Data Sharing, Social Media, USPS

405 points by leotravis10 219 days ago | 206 comments

Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data (eff.org)

Privacy, Law Enforcement, Data Sharing, California

37 points by glitcher 239 days ago | 1 comments

NZ at the centre of cross-govt group sharing personal traveller records (rnz.co.nz)