2022-10-22

As if I didn't have enough reasons to distrust the government, here's another one.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/21/us-police-track-innocent-peoples-movements-with-troubling-new-app/

With little in the way of federal data privacy laws, once someone clicks “I agree” on a pop-up box, there are few limitations on private entities’ collection, use and aggregation of user data, including location data. This is the loophole between data privacy and electronic surveillance law protections, and it creates the framework that underpins the massive U.S. data sharing market.

Need for Data Privacy Law

Without robust federal data privacy safeguards, smart device manufacturers, app makers and data brokers will continue, unfettered, to utilize smart devices’ sophisticated sensing technologies and GPS capabilities to collect and commercially aggregate vast quantities of intimate and revealing data.

 

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