Data Broker That Sold Phone Locations Lobbied FCC to Scrap User Consent Posted by jakobdabo on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:30PM from the motherboard.vice.com dept. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbwgw8/zumigo-phone-location-data-sold-lobbied-fcc-consent ( 1 comment | 16 points | on HN )
A guy who made money by selling user data lobbied to pass a law that lets him get access to even more data to sell.
If you make money off something, you want more of that "something" :)