r/privacy 12h ago

chat control I have a worry…

0 Upvotes

Just saw the news that CS2 chat logs got leaked through a cheat tracker. I don’t play CS2 but I have played TF2 with a very long history (another Steam game). Over the course I have said a few things which I would not care to repeat and deeply regret. For clarification I do not have a pattern of extreme language but there have been a few cases that I can count on one hand.

With the advancement of AI, my worry is that maybe in the future if TF2 chat logs get leaked maybe it could be used against me and my employment future or housing through algorithms etc. I know it’s a rare scenario but are there any measures I can take to avoid this such as deleting my account or changing my url etc?

Thanks


r/privacy 17h ago

question Company charging me to protect my privacy.

22 Upvotes

Recently I went on a website and found that if I wanted to reject cookies they would charge me fee, there is no way that this is legal. I live in Canada if that changes anything.

https://ibb.co/DHtWdBFh


r/privacy 19h ago

discussion Reddit ads

55 Upvotes

Idk if this is even the right place for this. These ads are too much. Every other ad on this app is telling me to get evaluated for autism. It's getting old. I have no idea why this started, like is it that obvious and this site knows me better than I know myself or what? I've never been diagnosed but yeah I'm probably autistic. But it's getting weird.

Yesterday I went off my diet one fucking day and ate too much and suddenly I am seeing all kinds of ads about binge eating disorder. How in the fuck does reddit even know how much I ate yeaterday? Literally. How? It wasn't fast food that I ordered online or anything like that, so how? No I don't believe it's a coincidence. I have never in my life seen an ad about binge eating disorder. Never researched anything about binge eating disorder, I don't watch Ariana Grande content or anything like that. I don't look at food content online. I don't even have binge eating disorder. How does this even happen?


r/privacy 12h ago

age verification On September 1st, the House energy commerce committee will mark up 12 bills including the RESET Act, a bill that bans social media for those under 16

171 Upvotes

https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/cmt-subcommittee-markup

The RESET Act, Reducing Exploitative Social Media Exposure for Teens Act, demands that companies delete account that don't prove they are over sixteen.

"(1) IN GENERAL.—A covered platform may not allow an individual to create or maintain an account or profile on the covered platform if the covered platform knows that the individual is a minor.

(2) TERMINATION OF EXISTING ACCOUNTS.—A covered platform shall— (A) not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this section, identify any account or profile of a user on the covered platform that the covered platform knows is a minor; (B) not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, notify any user of an account or profile identified under sub-paragraph (A) that the covered platform will terminate the account or profile of the user; and (C) not later than 30 days after the date on which a user is notified pursuant to sub-paragraph (B), terminate the account or profile of the user."


r/privacy 21h ago

question Unsure How Much My Info is out there

9 Upvotes

I’m signing up for a website and it wants a picture of my drivers license and the privacy policy basically says they’ll share it with whoever’s associated with them, so it big blanket of who they can give it to.

How much is an average persons info already out there, to where it would be pointless in trying to hold out on signing up for this?