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Closing the Data Broker Loophole (www.pogo.org)

submitted 1 month ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I found this, it's about the data broker loophole. The problem is, in the US we have 4th Amendment protection against warantless searches. Many other nations, have a similar right, by another name. Canada has Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

These are more and more bypassed by data brokers. The government purchases data from data brokers. Data it could not get without a warant in the past.

Maybe this is not as much a problem yet in Canada as in the US? I'm not sure, hope some Canadians can say how it is? But here in the US, it's a massive prob now.

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[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

We don't need to close the loophole. We need to make it illegal for ANYONE to digitally stalk us and create digital data troves on us. They should be restricted to a narrow data gathering of what we give them for the purpose we give them the data for.

I don't want corporations collecting and selling data that I don't trust the government with.

A world where they still do that but the government "isn't allowed to buy it" isn't much better than what we have. Worse, it could enshrine their right to gather it.