Gm #nostr - off to the fiat mines. Interesting conversation with the boss the other day. Part of the job involves community work. Not a problem. A few colleagues had been in situations where they didnt feel comfortable, so, under their duty of care, work brought a bunch of licences for an app which has a big red button to push in the event of emergency. Great. Works by GPS. Very clever. Can't see me ever needing it, but still, it's there. Other day the boss asks me to confirm some details for the app; no issue, till they wanted my personal phone number, my personal address and my personal email. They don't need that. So I said no. I was asked several times to hand over those details. They've got them, they could hand them over themselves, but they know they can't without my permission, which I'm refusing to give. It makes me stop and wonder, how often do people just hamd over their data to companies they don't know, with no thought to how that data will be used or secured. I don't think they're going to give me any grief over it - I mean, from a legal perspective, I'm not obligated, so technically, they can't. But they could start seeing me as a non compliant trouble maker and that could impact how I'm treated at other times, in theory. Funny old world.

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At a more trivial level, I an sometimes at the checkout of a store and, right before I pay, the cashier will just casually ask me for my email or phone number. My standard response is "is this information required in order for me to purchase this backpack?" or whatever it happens to be. They usually seem a bit caught off guard by this, like they're not used to having this questioned, and thus far the answer has always been no. If the answer were ever to be yes, I would not do business with them. I'm sure it's mostly just so that they can pester me with advertising, but it's the casual nature of the inappropriate request, and the seeming lack of push back from most people, that I find so repulsive.
It really is surprising just how lackadaisical people have become about what they had over to who. There's nothing wrong about pushing back and saying no, but yeah, people seem disorientated when it happens.
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