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Re:The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder a... by zepto on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:36PM (#26369452)
I vehemently dislike ad-tech and the sale of personal data, but this seems like a bizarre argument.

Do we know anything about how the data was bought, or whether they knew what it would be used for?

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Re:The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder a... by sha1337 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:21AM (#26373642)
I don't think OP is being hyperbolic actually:

https://www.libyanexpress.com/muslim-pro-cuts-ties-with-x-mo...

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Re:The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder a... by wmf on Saturday March 06, 2021 @03:26PM (#26370263)
Data brokers will sell data to anyone; they don't ask or care who's buying or what it will be used for.
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Re:The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder a... by zepto on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:17PM (#26371024)
Like almost all sales of any kind?

So what have they got to do with murder?

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Re:The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder a... by wmf on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:30PM (#26372268)
My takeaway from Drew's argument is that buying and selling location data was mostly viewed as harmless but now we can see that it's not. This makes yet another case for GDPR-like regulation to rein in such practices.
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Re:The corporate surveillance machine is conducting murder a... by zepto on Saturday March 06, 2021 @09:11PM (#26372506)
It’s just false to say that the people selling location data are involved in murder.

It’s a bad argument.

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