novelgazer Mar 25
evacide
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic
Mar 25 at 5:10pmWeb
Show threadSteve BellovinMar 25
@evacide This! I'd say "100 times this", but 100 is far too low!
Show threadMother AnarchyMar 25
@evacide I met a data broker once. Or a data miner, more accurately. At the strip club. I met a lot of enemies of the people at the strip club. Data miners, Facebook employees, "defense" contractors, etc. I wish I'd stolen from them more. They steal more than enough from us.
Show threadVMar 25
@ArcMother @evacide Sex work is a great way to meet horrible men. Never worked in a club, but, it makes sense, on the FSSW side I got a lot of lawyers, political sorts, some "defense" folks, a few tech employees, too.
Also wish I'd stolen from some of them more.
Show threadMother AnarchyMar 25
@miss_rodent fssw?
Show threadVMar 25
@ArcMother 'full service sex work'
Show threadMother AnarchyMar 25
@miss_rodent ahhh haven't heard that one. But yeah, that checks out.
Show threadPhil WolffMar 25
@evacide Yes. How?
Show threadRootWyrm 🇺🇦Mar 25
@evacide AND everyone involved in it sent to prison. That second part is EQUALLY important. Otherwise they'll just do it again.
Show threadPhilip Proefrock, architectMar 25
"We certainly wouldn't imagine a scenario where the police said, 'We're going to search your house. We don't have a warrant, but we paid your landlord $100 to give us a spare key. So now we're searching your house without a warrant,'" Laperruque said.
Show threadDrainMar 25
@evacide It would solve a mountain of problems.
Show threadslashMar 25

@evacide It seems reasonable to -- at a *minimum* -- regulate them to the same extent as the OG data brokers, Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.

But making that business illegal would also be fine with me.

Show threadJonMar 25
@evacide the irony of NPR’s cookie consent pop-up on this article that only shows because I’m logged in to a VPN.
Show threadMortenMar 25
@evacide I'm surprised we haven't had more stories about stalkers and tabloids buying personal data.
Show threadsoftproofMar 25
@evacide Pleasant thought. And feasible - once we revive our emaciated organic economy to pay the bills. Stand by...
Show threadT2RMar 25
@evacide Destroyed and all those who used said databrokers should be destroyed too or fined out of existence.
Show threadayoMar 25
@evacide Ironic
Show threadOyu F'kaMar 25

@evacide It's starting to happen over here in the UK too - getting a lot of targeted marketing shite in my mail - contacted one this morning to get my data 'supressed' so it wont be used again.

Even my local authority has handed total management of council tax data to a data bank, which includes voting registration...currently selling said data to debt collection agencies, who then use it to dig even deeper into your data, adding data points as it goes.

Absolutely they should be destroyed!

Show threadDonCCMar 25
@evacide
how can i assist?
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShellMar 26

@evacide

Can we also add to that all the major tech companies? They need to go as well.

Show threadCassandraVert6d ago
Some of what the biggest tech companies do can be converted to public utilities.
Show threadJhooper6d ago
@evacide I'm not sure who would think you were joking
Show threadReijo Pitkänen5d ago
@evacide Does this list: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List mean anything in this context, or is this just suppressing results to the public?
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Show threadevacide5d ago
@reijomancer Yes, opting out of data brokers is good and I share this list regularly.
Show threadMark T. Tomczak4d ago
@evacide It's a really good idea. I don't know how we get there when even our government finds it so valuable... How did the EU get to where they are now?