FLOSS Weekly 752: Stalkers Beware - Cooper Quintin on Personal Privacy and TOR University Challenge
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Concerns about Data Brokers and Consumer Privacy
The concern is not just about data being stolen or accessed by unauthorized individuals, but also about the booming industry of data brokers. These brokers collect all sorts of personal information from location data to browsing history and sell it to whoever wants it, including law enforcement. This poses a major threat to consumer privacy and can undermine the need for proper warrants. It's a wild and concerning aspect of surveillance capitalism.
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