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who to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago

White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data

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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data

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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data | TechCrunch
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The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.
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  • @DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works
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    I winder of money was involved in this decision?

    • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      Somebody gave Trump a happy meal to scrap it.

    • @rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, dude said so:

      the rule is “not aligned with the Bureau’s current interpretation”

  • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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    This is probably partly what DOGE was for, gathering all the data and selling it, and now US citizens will be scammed to high hell.

  • @ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    I don’t get it. If they’re already extracting value from my existence why the FUCK do I still have to work

    • Capt. Wolf
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      Because your very existence is only worth pennies to them.

  • @werewolfborg@ttrpg.network
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    Of course. They want to suck in some of that cash too under the table. Why expect anything more by a government ran by known scammers.

  • @ansiz@lemmy.world
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    At this point what data is even left to sell that hasn’t already been sold? All my info is out on the dark web already.

    • @JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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      Well, if you put it that way, sell away then.

      /s

  • @JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    Well I mean yeah. What tf is Elon gonna do with all the data he scraped under doge if the restrictions were still in place?

    /s for the dumbfucks looking for a fight

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