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Fine, I'll add it to the list...

Anything else while we're at it? It's "two for one" Thursday.

@evacide There was a great article a little ways back of the US buying location data from a Muslim prayer application, so that it could track Muslim citizens who they otherwise couldn't legally wide net.

Great time to be alive.

@evacide Violently.

No mercy.

@evacide So...this information, which _they_ say could cause "...harm to an individual’s reputation, emotional well-being, or physical safety." is going to be collected into a single place, and pawed through for any reason that comes to mind.

And shouldn't the realization that the existence of this data will cause real harm to the people they are sworn to protect cause them to regulate (or outlaw) the data broker industry?

How did I get here, and how can I return to my own time-line?

@evacide I mean if mobile operating systems **ahem**Google**ahem** wouldn't just grant location permissions if requested by the app at install....and occasionally reminded you the app was tracking you and how often it was doing so....

Its infuriating that most of the people around me still roll their eyes when the 'crazy privacy lady' starts to talk about the importance of data. Even when I simply try to convince them that your data is more valuable to you than them. People are listening now more than before but it's too little too late.

I refuse location and internet access to all apps unless absolutely required. And then I restrict the IP and domains they are allowed to access. Revoking location permissions is always my first go to, most bang for your buck recommendation for increasing privacy.

@evacide Sometimes, I wonder if this is a product of the Defense Authorisation Act signed by Reagan after being unanimously passedby the Senate, with 7 (including GHWB) for, 0 against, 94 absent, which authorises the CIA to establish and operate it's own private companies...

I strongly suspect that databrokers often get capital investments from CIA via their private companies, etc.

I have a copy of the final 1984 bill somewhere but not the record from the Federal Register or the law.

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ON the upside, SOOOO much of that data will be wrong!

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I have an eternal boiling cauldron of pitch black contempt for every "nothing to hide" pants-on-head circus clown who argued that corporate surveillance was no big deal over the last 20 years.

I have been forced to live in the dumbest future that we all could've avoided, and I resent that.