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   Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:00:18 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Only a federal privacy law that empowers ordinary people to sue companies that broker their sensitive data will have enough teeth to begin reining in the data broker industry. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more-current-american-privacy-rights-act

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     MaybeMyMonkeys (maybemymonkeys@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:02:44 JST MaybeMyMonkeys

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     @eff for the sake of efficiency, Elon will outlaw privacy

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     Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:20:01 JST Patrick Leavy

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     @eff great article - thank you! I think this ban should also include a ban on companies keeping persistent #profiles on us.

     It's not enough for us to have the right to request the deletion of the profile, it should be illegal to build and keep that #behaviouralprofile in the first place.

     What do you reckon?

     #surveillancecapitalism #tracking

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     Dew (0nothingman0@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 09:43:55 JST Dew

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     @eff But a law enabling consumers to sue data brokers could make the government liable for brokering consumer data. I guess we're not supposed to look behind the curtain though.