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I vehemently dislike ad-tech and the sale of personal data, but this seems like a bizarre argument. Do we know anything about how the data was bought, or wheth
by zepto 6y ago
I vehemently dislike ad-tech and the sale of personal data, but this seems like a bizarre argument.
Do we know anything about how the data was bought, or whether they knew what it would be used for?
- wmf 6y agoData brokers will sell data to anyone; they don't ask or care who's buying or what it will be used for.
- zepto 6y agoLike almost all sales of any kind? So what have they got to do with murder?
- wmf 6y agoMy takeaway from Drew's argument is that buying and selling location data was mostly viewed as harmless but now we can see that it's not. This makes yet another case for GDPR-like regulation to rein in such practices.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s just false to say that the people selling location data are involved in murder. It’s a bad argument.
- sha1337 6y agoI don't think OP is being hyperbolic actually: https://www.libyanexpress.com/muslim-pro-cuts-ties-with-x-mode-over-selling-user-data-to-us-military/ https://www.libyanexpress.com/muslim-pro-cuts-ties-with-x-mo...