The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
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@evacide do you believe in services that request deletion with data brokers?
@evacide You need to start that statement with “ceterum censeo.” 😉
@evacide Do you have several billions a year to lobby congress? Those selling the data do.
If the government has access to and the power to buy such data, they will always choose to buy it
Patel is a scourge on the civil liberties of Americans. He serves an autocrat. The only positive news of his appointment is that he is dumb. .
@evacide Plus, government bodies are funded by taxpayer dollars, so we're paying for our own surveillance.
I say this often, and with fervor!
@evacide it does, but not only because it harms americans, it harms humanity, and there's also something very wrong about the USA Government, which is as guilty of this harm, likely more guilty.
@evacide as long as people are blindly and happily using the services hoarding the data, data brokers will be around.
only the society can kill them, but society is lazy and not interested.
@evacide Nobody voluntarily shares their precise location history with the FBI when they download a flashlight app. The consent buried in a 47-page terms of service that nobody reads isn't consent in any meaningful sense of the word. It's legal infrastructure designed to manufacture the appearance of consent while eliminating its substance.
In this German/French documentary, a French newspaper discovers location data from its own news app in the location dataset of a data broker. They couldn’t explain how this could have happened, since they don’t collect this data themselves.
The Film also shows that not only intelligence agencies can use such data, but also stalkers and other equally “charming” individuals.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123951-000-A/gefaehrliche-apps-im-netz-der-datenhaendler/
Gefährliche Apps - Im Netz der Datenhändler - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
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@evacide Kash, no need to buy my location data: this whole time I’ve been at your mom’s house.
@evacide @mastodonmigration Along with the insurance industry and pretty much everything else that has become an "industry" rather than a service.
