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The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)

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A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.

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[–] Kazak@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This won’t end without better data privacy protections across the board. Data brokers hoard this info whether the government wants it or not. Restricting the collection and use in the first place would prevent the government from being able to freely buy it like they can now.

My question would be what other governments are being sold this data? I don’t think we’ll find out the US is unique here.