journos love to use 'hacked' in a headline but for real I'm less worried about hacking (read: usually data breaches caused by poor privacy and digital security practices) and more worried about how the company is lawfully going to collect, use and exploit my data ok
@floreani And a lot of that data fusion business is the legacy of rather unethical behaviour of one man: Hank Asher
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/magazine/hank-asher-data.html
The Man Who Trapped Us in Databases

Hank Asher was a drug smuggler with a head for numbers — until he figured out how to turn Americans’ private information into a big business.

The New York Times
@floreani @tychotithonus I'm pretty sure EVERYONE loves to used "hacked" that way.