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minus-squareCosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·12 days agoThe trick that the Government has learned is that it’s easier and cheaper to buy your location data from a third party. No warrant necessarily since the data is available to anyone who wants to buy it.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·12 days agoIt shouldn’t be though. Nothing a company gleans from your use of a product should be available for purchase by any third party. This should have been legislated two decades ago.
minus-squarereagansrottencorpse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoThat’s the best part, all our legislators were bought decades ago.
The trick that the Government has learned is that it’s easier and cheaper to buy your location data from a third party.
No warrant necessarily since the data is available to anyone who wants to buy it.
It shouldn’t be though. Nothing a company gleans from your use of a product should be available for purchase by any third party. This should have been legislated two decades ago.
That’s the best part, all our legislators were bought decades ago.