It would appear that the submitter thinks all that is required to construct an article summary is to string tweets together in a single paragraph.

It's all just words and numbers, isn't it? No suitable effort or consideration for the communication medium required. Consider yourself lucky it isn't written in emojis.

Maybe they had second thoughts and regret talking to the BBC.

Maybe they decided it wasn't such a great idea that their children go through their early years labelled as the gay fertility child by anyone who googled Mum's name.

Maybe they decided that their medical history is like anyone else's; personal and private.

Did you RTFA? They are interfering. They are going about town demanding that other people turn off electrical stuff that they imagine causes their imaginary disease.

You miss the point.

If an artist who wasn't already very successful (and therefore very rich) made this stand the world's media, and Apple, would go "So what, who cares?" and we wouldn't be discussing it here.

In order for this to get attention it needs someone like Swift to make the stand. Whatever you may speculate her motivation is. Someone who has a genuine need and complaint about the money would get ignored.

A pathetically naive solution. Who gets to pick who is "little" and "new"? What if you're a just a bit bigger than "little" and just a bit older than "new"? Tough luck, you get to help multi-millionaire company Apple build a new business for themselves, at no recompense.

There is always a problem when people try to draw an artificial line, where the rules totally change, in the middle of a market. Because there is always someone who falls on just the wrong side of the line that gets hammered, while someone else, practically identical, on the other side of the line reaps the benefits.

Why should she feel obliged to share any risk with Apple? It's not her business venture. She's doing just fine without it.

I'm going to give your work away for nothing. You'll get nothing, but it's ok because I'm getting nothing too. I'm fine with this because I'm already insanely rich. Your financial position does not concern me.

What you complaining about? This is a valid model.

Homeopathy is completely inappropriate for all branches of medical practice. That's the joke. It's funny because it's true.

What misdeeds are being brought to air here?

So this is like taking a random child out of the class and beating them in front of the others, just so they know what'll happen to them if they're naughty.

No, actually it's like arresting someone because maybe they've done something, then looking for the evidence afterwards. If none found, meh, tough luck.

I might look remarkably like George Clooney. Any attempt to sanatize George from my data might actually result in an image less like me.

Isn't part of the deal with waxworks is you're supposed to be know what the people look like? So you recognise their uncanny likeness in wax?

Steve Wozniak is the only one of those suggested I'd have any hope of recognising. Heads of IT companies are not really people I need to see or remember. I'd consider myself doing well if I recognise the name. It's their product that matters, not their faces.

Upload to Facebook a whole heap of random pictures of people (actors, the famous etc) or all kinds and tag the lot as yourself. Make yourself appear to be a mashup of every possible gender/race/age and physical appearance. So any photos of yourself that do get tagged are drowned in a pool of misinformation.

Better late than unsafe.

Reddit is like this because people are like this. Every site is the same, it just manifests itself if different ways according to the mechanisms used there.

If you want to change how this happens on social media; first change people.

(Hint: people won't change.)

But isn't it reassuring that the first thing stopping them doing surveillance that comes to Sir Bernard's mind is the lack of resources? Not things like legality or moral justification?

Lack of money; the police's new moral compass.

At some point in the future, and I'm not saying when, people like you will be pummelled with pillows. I'm not saying you. Just people like you. You have absolutely nothing to worry, and the fact I'm saying that in a very menacing tone should not be taken as a suggestion that I'm actually specifically meaning you.

For all you know, no one has your personal address and is not in the habit of parking outside your home in the dark. No. Although some people have a psychopathic hatred of people like you, you are excluded. You will not be pummelled with pillows when you least expect it, sometime. You can count on it.

This is not a threat and no-one could reasonably expect your life is in any danger. Not even when slashdot's past criminal history of arranging pillow pummelling is taken into account.