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Re:Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills by Razengan on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:05PM (#39948334)
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.

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Re:Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:15PM (#39948405)
> 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.

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