Tag: information brokers

The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

But no threat of any kind is required to conduct surveillance under Section 702. The law permits surveillance of any foreigner abroad, as long as a significant purpose of the surveillance is to acquire “foreign intelligence information.” FISA defines this term extremely broadly to include any “information related to . . . the conduct of U.S. foreign affairs.” A conversation between friends about whether the United States should do more to support Ukraine would justify surveillance under this definition.

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Rampant Data Broker Sale Of Pregnancy Data Gets Fresh Scrutiny Post Roe

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

from the the-check-is-coming-due-for-apathy dept

Mon, Aug 15th 2022 06:29am – Karl Bode

For decades now, privacy advocates warned we were creating a dystopia through our rampant over-collection and monetization of consumer data. And just as often, those concerns were greeted with calls of “consumers don’t actually care about privacy” from overly confident white guys in tech.

Rampant Data Broker Sale Of Pregnancy Data Gets Fresh Scrutiny Post Roe