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Perhaps the government wouldn't get such a bad name for this stuff if they just registered as an advertising company and started paying FAANG for data like they
by rhacker 7y ago
Perhaps the government wouldn't get such a bad name for this stuff if they just registered as an advertising company and started paying FAANG for data like they were a college based research company.
- phkahler 7y agoI just assume that already goes on. I find the amount of money going into advertising quite amazing. What part of that is just government(s) collecting data?
- tracker1 7y agoI still don't get why those company's executives aren't charged under the Computer Fraud And Abuse Act... I mean, they've clearly violated TOS and accessing the data in bad faith. -- edit To the downvote... we're talking about companies that slurped up data (illegally) from social networks, then sold both the data and services based on this data. Sure, they can throw the book at someone copying research papers, but a corporation that acts in bad faith invading the privacy of hundreds of millions gets a pass?