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Just in case you're wondering why we need regulation to control the data broker market ASAP, here's the FBI circumventing the courts by buying data from the commercial sector.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3z9a/fbi-bought-netflow-data-team-cymru-contract
@evacide Remember the old "what is good for General Motors is good for the country"? Now is is, "what is good for data brokers is good for the FBI." And probably the CIA and the NSA as well. And do you want to bet that Chinese spies are not smart enough to setup a screen company and buy the same data?
@evacide someone talk to mc mcgrath to buy some of this data to feed icwatch 
@evacide the same way they paid a hacker to break into an iPhone instead of forcing apple to unlock it. We need at least GDPR or better. People are forced to choose between privacy and affording healthcare with telemedicine apps and goodrx selling their medical info to advertisers. Accolade even explicitly states it will share your health info with third parties in its privacy policy. You’re paying for the privilege of paying for medical treatment and sale of your info.
@evacide@hachyderm.io um ... wow. existential dread now at monumentally massive proportions. ffs.
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@evacide@hachyderm.io Yes but I don't think they are going to regulate it. They are benefiting from this loophole of data protection law, why would they want to?
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could we maybe SaVe TaXPaYeR MoNeY and nuke the broker market? Also, faster.
Just dreaming, I know.
@evacide Yeah, I'm sure DC politicians will fix this problem immediately. One party is fascist, the other party wants to be friends with the fascists.
@evacide yet "TikTok is the problem" 
@evacide my problem with this reporting is folks forgetting the former FCC chair, Ajit "punchable face" Pai, making the selling of user data to anyone or anything completely legal. ISP's don't need user consent because it's not needed.
This isn't a FBI problem, this goes back to Mr Reese's Peanut Puncher Cup.
Maybe the FTC can weigh in here and fix it, maybe not.
Finally, if you have internet in the USA provided by a coaxial cable (yup, the physical medium matters), you have additional protection because of the Cable Act of 1984. For once, Comcast might shine bright for something.