sirlington

joined 1 year ago
[–] sirlington@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Many companies sell your data to data brokers, and a phone number can act as a unique identifier across several data sources, allowing brokers to merge several data profiles together into a mega-profile about you.

[–] sirlington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US can not afford to be divided like this right now, but what the hell can you guys do. Fucked situtation, I feel you

[–] sirlington@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good news, Moore's law and dennard scaling is pretty much over. We could (in a better system) buy for the next decade. Unfortunately this is not profitable so it won't happen