Comment by blackeyeblitzar
9 months ago
It is crazy to me that data brokers are even a legal form of business. All of these services should be opt in at minimum. If they are obtaining publicly available information and making it easier to access, they should have to maintain insurance or a deposit with the government to compensate victims of cybersecurity incidents. Telling people to get credit monitoring is in NO WAY an acceptable way to make us whole. They need to pay for a lifetime of monitoring and INSURANCE up to the net worth of affected individuals. This needs to become law ASAP.
We're two decades into "The Digital Millennium" and our laws are still stuck in 1999 (except for the ones that ya know, allow dragnet spying).
I'd wholeheartedly support any candidates that push for a data/privacy "Bill of rights".
I’m optimistic for Harris, not just because she’s so much younger and less beholden to industry, but because she created an entire unit for privacy protection when she was the California AG:
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kama...
There has never been a US president that had anything close to ethical behaviour (to wit: the ones that existed after drone strikes became a thing all signed off on drone strikes. Those hit a lot of innocent people. The US has never stopped having slavery. I could go on). It is really the height of fanciful thinking to believe that the flavour of the month US leader will be any different.
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Good news, the Fifth Circuit court just ruled that Geo-fenced warrants are illegal!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/5th-circuit-rule...
Since this is in conflict with a Fourth Circuit ruling, we will probably see it in front of the Supreme Court.
> It is crazy to me that data brokers are even a legal form of business.
Ah, yes, but they're businesses, you see - the most important class of entity in America. We the people can evidently go fuck ourselves if it means some scumbag gets to make a buck.