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jmcgready
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Note the disclaimer at the bottom of all the eyeball grabbing stats:

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jmcgready
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
"Once AmazonSmile closes, charities will still be able to seek support from Amazon customers by creating their own wish lists."

So, Amazon's tired of revenue going out instead of coming in....

Sure, the argument can be made that Amazon does let charities join their affiliate program <https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GYV3PYE...>

But how many of those smaller charities are going to want to deal with all that fine print just to set a 24 hour browser cookie?
jmcgready
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
My inflation adjusted $0.02 -

Maybe limit culpability to SEC Form 3 filers - easier to prove sufficient leverage and potential motive if not for criminal matters, then at least civil matters.
jmcgready
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> In the article there is a quote, “There is no personal data more sensitive than our DNA.“

> This seems a bogus assertion to me. I can imagine many diagnostic health test results that would be more sensitive to leak than DNA (e.g., STD and drug tests).

> DNA sequencing is eventually going to be so cheap and ubiquitous that it will happen to everyone anyway.

> Having published my own results (https://enki.org/2017/10/17/publishing-my-genome/), I really don’t buy into the idea that DNA is the most personal data that can be leaked.

> (Nevertheless, there should be more obvious warnings to customers about how their data will be monetized.)

> In the article there is a quote, “There is no personal data more sensitive than our DNA.“

> This seems a bogus assertion to me. I can imagine many diagnostic health test results that would be more sensitive to leak than DNA (e.g., STD and drug tests).

It's still PHI, and in this case subject to at least the Data Protection Act. The walk-in centers at Gatwick and Heathrow may have tested non-UK citizens. If so, they may run into compliance issues with GDPR or other privacy regs. Not sure how that plays out.

Guess I'll have to wait for the investigation results....

> Having published my own results (https://enki.org/2017/10/17/publishing-my-genome/), I really don’t buy into the idea that DNA is the most personal data that can be leaked.

Being as (at least in the US) DNA is used as evidence to conclusively identify (or exclude) those accused of crime (i.e. rape kits, etc) I'd say that a court of law would consider it to be essentially personal info.