The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data

Re:The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data by quantified on Thursday March 09, 2023 @05:32AM (#35079950)

Did you consent to the long list of trackers and brokers? Charles Schwab communicates your web activities to Facebook and many others, even before you log in or have even signed up. Did you consent to that?

Corporate surveillance is different because corporations can't throw you in jail, can't send police and such at you. That's all.

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Re:The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data by yunwal on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:41AM (#35083232)

Corporations can and 100% do send police at people or throw them in jail.

A high profile example, though there are many others: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/energy-environme...

The fact that government involvement is needed is really semantics. No one affected by this decision could hold the officials responsible for this decision accountable, so the government is really an arm of the corporation at this point. This is inevitable when consolidation of wealth/power isn’t limited.

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Re:The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data by quantified on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#35095682)

"Send police" was wrong, certainly.

There are other examples too, like when Hertz gets you arrested for GTA because someone else was late returning the rental car you're driving.

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