Re:Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills
by Razengan on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:05PM
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Picture a possessive ex peeping through your window with binoculars. Following you everywhere you go. Wiretapping your house. Hacking your accounts to see all your photos. You get the idea
A privacy watchdog really should publish an ad like that, to really drill into the common masses about what corporations do to us.
Re:Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills
by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:15PM
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> Picture a possessive ex peeping through your window with binoculars. Following you everywhere you go. Wiretapping your house.
Except they don't need to do that. I can individually set up an app and spy on users and then aggregate that with other apps and buy and sell the data. That's the problem.
Put the other way: if a corporation hired a private eye to follow you everywehere and physically peep through your windows with binoculars, there would be backlash.
I don't see how an individual trading these data would be more or less despicable to the parties involved.