The thing is, thanks to work done in Congress in the 1960s,[1] there are laws on the books constraining what governments can do. (Whether or not the current adm

The thing is, thanks to work done in Congress in the 1960s,[1] there are laws on the books constraining what governments can do. (Whether or not the current administration, or any prior administration, has respected those laws is a different question.) What's not on the books are laws about what private industry can do. Just the opposite: data brokers were set loose last month to sell any all information they wanted.[2] 1 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/60-years-ago-congress-warned-us-about-the-surveillance-state-what-happened/ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/60-years-ago-congress-war... 2 https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/05/data-broker-protection-rule-quietly-withdrawn-by-cfpb https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/05/data-broker-p...