Comment by mancerayder

The individual rights under the Constitution have been deemed, in the U.S., to only apply to government and government institutions.

The private companies are exercising their free market rights, unfettered by inconveniences like privacy rights, and thus can (as per the article and the random65... whistleblower user at the top of this thread at the time of this writing) track behavior and sell the data.

Therefore, does it follow that government canNOT be the buyer of such data? That police departments or the FBI or others cannot access this data?

Is there a Chinese Wall in place to prevent such things from happening. Or...?