It's all allowed because of Clinton-era bill that legalized data collection in the first place. Can you imagine? Before that, databases of metadata couldn't be

It's all allowed because of Clinton-era bill that legalized data collection in the first place. Can you imagine? Before that, databases of metadata couldn't be copyrighted without getting consent for the owners of said information. Perhaps we should our digital ethics going back to basics - corporations shouldn't have a "right" to own data that doesn't belong to them.