> Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement that “These companies have demonstrated that they can't control who has access to their data products. The gov

> Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement that “These companies have demonstrated that they can't control who has access to their data products. The government needs to stop these companies from packaging and selling our personal information, and the senior executives that put profit over national security and Americans' safety should be punished accordingly.” I'm amazed that the quote from a politician is the most even handed substantive part of this article. The rest of the article is essentially scaremongering a misguided narrative around "criminals" gaining access to surveillance databases, when the real problem is the uncontrollable and unaccountable surveillance databases existing in the first place. The US desperately needs a port of the GDPR to give us data subjects the rights to control and prevent dossiers being kept on us.