[olympus]

Features like being required to delete (actually delete) your information if you request it. Features like being required to show you what they know about you.

Once you realize facebook/google/etc probably know better than you where you are going to eat lunch tomorrow you are going to opt out of everything you can, and that hurts their ability to sell targeted ads.

[solotronics]

"This kills the panopticon" -Picture of scissors cutting Facebook

[rmc]

"Required to show what they know" has been part of EU data protection law for decades. Max Schrems first made news by doing a data request to Facebook (which they complied with) in 2011. This is nothing new.

[seanwilson]

> Once you realize facebook/google/etc probably know better than you where you are going to eat lunch tomorrow you are going to opt out of everything you can, and that hurts their ability to sell targeted ads.

When people are willingly tagging the location of where they're having lunch and posting pictures of what they're eating, I can't say I agree. Preventing companies from tracking information users aren't aware of is a good thing though.