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What we need to do is to get a standard cease and desist letter that tells service providers that selling our personal information without notification, auditin
by olefoo 13y ago
What we need to do is to get a standard cease and desist letter that tells service providers that selling our personal information without notification, auditing powers and compensation is not permitted, and is a violation of our right of publicity and image rights, copyrights and other rights. Get a few hundred thousand people to send them to the the major telecommunications providers and ad networks and then assemble the team for a class action.
This is a perfectly valid tactic to use against private interests that are violating peoples 4th, 5th and 1st amendment rights.
And to forestall some of the objections; it is a tactic that is uncertain of success and that will in the short term most likely cause the passage of unconstitutional legislation protecting service providers against the public ( like the blanket amnesty for wrongdoing granted to phone companies in 2008 as part of FISA ). Having several thousand plaintiffs trying to get certified as a class, and overcome the additional hurdles that will be thrown in the way will force the issue into the light; and let's be honest do you think that most people think the government needs to know exactly where they sleep each night?