FactolSarin

In my experience with kids, it's not a choice. It's mostly poor kids who have this problem. Their family doesn't have a PC, and an old/cheap smartphone is the way they access the Internet.

That and it's run by Jeff Bezos, who has the money to do this for the long haul.

As the court pointed out, diaries and letters would have gone to the parents in the past (I mean, they still would if people wrote letters). However, the magnitude of the data makes things a bit different. If I write something down in my diary, I know someone else might crack it open one day. If I write a letter to a friend, I know that that friend might give it to someone else or let them read it. But this isn't just letters and diaries. This is every page you liked, tons of post history, and every message you've ever sent.

Sure, the parents would have gotten letters she possessed, but in ye olden days (ie, 20 years ago) those would have been letters to her, not from her. And it wouldn't have included letters she threw away. Or maybe hid somewhere. This is everything. So it's a bit complicated.

In the end, I actually do agree with the courts... I think it's the most reasonable course. But I also think platforms like Facebook should give us the ability to delete data for this exact purpose, and we should use services like Signal for things that are truly sensitive that we never want to get in anyone else's hands.

I'm at 2% right now typing this comment. Might be worth checking your add-ons.

Yup, they sure were.

My wife and I had a lot of trouble having children, and went to Mexico for IVF. Although we were staying in Cancun, we basically had no money. We had planned on just lounging on the beach for a week, but several different groups were offering free little day trips to different destinations if you set through a timeshare presentation.

We ended up doing that three times, and even knowing what I was getting into ahead of time I found their "hard sell" tactics both persuasive and exhausting. I didn't get roped into anything, but I can definitely see how it happens.

Just because it doesn't completely solve everything, that doesn't mean it isn't a step in the right direction.

I'm now imagining what someone from those days would make of your post about their contact info being picked up by "robots and spiders." :D

No, pretty much everyone except the US votes in favor a two state solution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resol...

I'm pretty sure the name of your own country is important to most people everywhere.

Yeah, the human component is definitely a lot easier to attack. I'm curious how this is handled. Does the person doing the random number generation have anyone else standing over their shoulder at the time? There should definitely be witnesses and/or records of something this important.

And according to the article, I notice they said that only 10k make it past the lottery stage to the vetting stage. That seems like a pretty easy anti-immigration attack surface: just submit a lot of low quality requests to block out potential acceptances.