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What would you consider your threat model? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was watching Eric Murphy's video on "Privacy faigue" and it certainly provided some food for thought. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6ryHD_ahQ)

I like how he conceptualizes privacy as multilevelled, with no one-size-fits-all solution, which should be tailored based on the individual's threat model.

So, with that in mind: what would y'all consider your threat model?

As far as I'm concerned I suppose my main goal is to avoid advertisements, particularly targeted advertisement. Additionally I would obviously like to avoid getting hacked, but I know I'm not being targeted particularly (and wouldn't be a worthwhile target anyway). Curious to see if I have any obvious blindspots that could be remedied based on everyone else's answers.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I once talked with a colleague from the data-analysis field. Apparently the company they work at is somewhat in the legally grey area.

They advised other companies on hiring candidates, by scraping all possible data about them online (which included buying anonymized advertising data and correlating it to all their publically available data and the data from the application). Using that, they claim to predict worker motivation, loyalty, how often they are sick, their political alignment, what their acceptable rate is, if they are going to ask for a raise, how well they work under pressure and much much more.

Since hearing it this has basically become my thread model.

As I am writing this, I realize that it is probably time to delete my Lemmy account and never post here again lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Jeez, that's terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you can stay anonymous (as in your threat model) on Lemmy as long as you use a VPN and keep your style of speech different than your "real" one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

and keep your style of speech different than your “real” one

Good luck with that!

I kinda feel like you'd need to run your comments through a style transfer LLM in order to do that successfully and consistently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Or just be extremely careful and lose your mind due to the stress like I did!

[–] mynamesnotrick 4 points 6 months ago

Fucking hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If those companies that say they get other companies to delete your data weren't just going to turn around and sell their data I might actually sign up for one at this point. Sadly, even the heroes are villains in this story.