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A Win For Privacy

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A Win For Privacy

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California passes a data privacy law and everyone's celebrating like we just invented fire. Meanwhile, corporations have been hoarding your data like dragons sitting on treasure for decades, selling it to anyone with a credit card. Now you can finally request deletion... after filling out a form... that requires verification... which needs more of your data... to delete your data.

The real joke? They'll just buy it back from the other 47 data brokers who already have it. But sure, let's call it a "huge win" and pretend that one DELETE request is gonna make Facebook forget you exist. Your data's been replicated across more servers than there are Starbucks locations at this point.

Fun fact: Most companies will just soft-delete your records anyway and keep them "for legal purposes" in a backup somewhere. It's like asking the internet to forget—technically possible, practically hilarious.

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