Thread locked because it's off-topic to our community. (Although there were some interesting discussions, thanks.)

How about passing a law that makes it illegal to sell any of someone's data without express written consent for each sale.

Why is this in programmer humour?

Why is this funny?

Something I never see mentioned in discussions about privacy and "deleting your data": all of these websites store information in databases, and databases are (usually) backed up on a regular schedule. This means that the databases in their entirety are written to tape or optical drive or whatever format, in a form where they could be remounted/restored in their entirety if necessary. Even if your data is "deleted" from the current active instance of a database, no company goes into all (or any) of the backed-up copies of that database to delete that same data there (and even when you delete something from the current active instance of a database, the deletions are logged in the audit tables and so are never truly "deleted").

So it is impossible in a practical sense to truly delete your personal data, regardless of what any law says. It's not even possible to make it inaccessible to AI, since most likely when websites sell their data to AI companies, they are selling database backups that predate AI.

How about letting me sell my own data for my own financial gain. That way I can sell the parts of my life I want to sell

They will just offshore the servers and nothing changes... Like the Do Not Call list, looks great on paper, I'm still getting calls from spoofed numbers from abroad. US/California law means nothing in India.

At this point I'm seriously considering just running something like openclaw with a basic model to just keep clicking on random stuff and browsing the internet, changing personalities each day at random, to flood my IPs data.

Truly hilarious

Grant Certiorari

Nice lawyer joke there.

Yeah, that's never getting deleted - it just sets a flag that 'this account is more interesting'