I went to a gas station that had facial recognition cameras. They cited theft, but also their “legitimate interest”, using website cookie language - only there was no easily apparent way to object to their legitimate interest.
What we really need is legislation. The law needs to recognise that businesses cannot just steal data from people for free for their own profits - not to mention exploiting that data against the data subject.
If you build and sell a car, you have to pay for the nuts and bolts. You can’t just take them and say “well, you wouldn’t know how to build a car, and they only cost a tiny, tiny amount, so we don’t need to pay you.”
Personal data has value. So much value, the businesses that focus on collecting it are some of the wealthiest in the world. We are all being robbed.
Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.
Right now
lemmy.ml/comment/123456andlemmy.ml/comment/123456are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have islemmy.ml/comment/123456@lemmy.worldto point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the@to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.