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Awesome! Wish I could upvote this twice.

That's not a problem with organ donation IMO, that is a problem with insurance companies.

> Living kidney donor here.

The "living" part is redundant.

Oh that sounds ok. Thanks for clarifying.

Interesting fact, TIL.

That't be nice, yes, thank you.

Just one question about this:

> If you installed the briarpatch extension, all of your bookmarks are now in sync.

If I had been using Chrome, all my bookmarks would have been uploaded automatically? Don't you think that's a bit intrusive? Trying to be constructive here, not criticizing your system at all.

> if you were driving around taking pictures of peoples homes some might call that creepy---but that's exactly what Google did to create Street View.

I do find street view creepy.

> We're sorry but the beta version of the briarpatch extension is only available for Google Chrome.

Looks like I won't be using it after all.

> It's one of the rare pieces of information that indicates altruism, along with charitable giving.

Depending on your region, being a registered organ donor in fact says a lot about your previous medical history. HIV status, etc...

Google and Facebook are the kings of plausible deniability.

Everything they do is meant to collect personal data, but they always have the perfect excuse for doing it.

> When did you stop beating your wife? How do we know for a fact?

I never was accused of that. Silly response. Google has been accused of several privacy violations.

Fair point, I stand corrected.

> Making it illegal isn't going to protect you.

Well if making things illegal doesn't protect us any more then we're in serious trouble here.

I am aware of the context.

To mark hotspots you don't need packet sniffing or data capture of any kind. Why is Google capturing packet payload during "wardriving"? Nobody does that. All you do is store the GPS location, plus basic AP identification, period.