> People are clicking the buttons just because they are there.

The reasons why they click the buttons are utterly irrelevant to anyone except them.

Let them click the buttons. It's their right.

> But, I still feel like this went too far.

Not far enough. I think data should be a massive liability. It should actively cost you lots of money to know any fact at all about any person anywhere on the planet.

In other words, in an ideal world you would be scrambling to press that button on their behalf the second your business with them was concluded. "Can we please forget everything we know about you please?" and only their explicit affirmative consent would allow you to not delete their data.

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mnw21cam 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

At the moment, holding data about someone is not a significant recurrent cost, but it is a liability in the form of a risk that could get you in serious trouble if you get something wrong. However, that particular business risk doesn't tend to be recognised by many many organisations. It should be.

	▲	matheusmoreira 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		If they can afford to be ignorant of the risks, it's because the liability is not high enough. Gotta raise the liability until they start doing what we want them to do by default. Private information should be an existential risk for them. They should be deleting every last bit without even asking, not sucking up endless amounts of it without consent.

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