A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his

A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.

    • Flying Squid
      29•1 year ago

      Good luck. If you want to interact with the modern world- have a smartphone, use social media, streaming services, etc., you’re going to have your data sold. And if you don’t do it, the corporation you work for is probably doing it. The horses are already out of the barn. Our data is not ours anymore.

        • @Illuminostro@lemmy.world
          15•1 year ago

          You’re delusional if you think you’re a “ghost” online. You can make it harder to track you, but you’re never, ever invisible.

          • @Gabu@lemmy.world
            -1•1 year ago

            You don’t have to be - all you must do is have the value of selling your data be lower than the cost of acquiring it.

            • Flying Squid
              1•1 year ago

              A lot of jobs ask you for social media contacts. They also advertise via LinkedIn and Indeed, which require personal data. So you don’t have to be, but you’ll be lucky if you get one. And, like I said, once you get one, the company could easily just sell the data you give them. Are you going to refuse to give them your information too? Why would they hire you? Why would they keep you?

              This is the same “everyone can do what I did” nonsense I get from rich libertarians.

    • @paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
      4•1 year ago

      I agree, but this list doesn’t sound particularly like digital behavior, though I’m sure that’s included. Credit card companies were selling your receipts long before online shopping, voter reg (though not it’s history) is public, a lot of this is just buying straight from companies or scraping.