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by sean_anandale 3006 days ago
Are you kidding? Twitter, for example, made ~400 million dollars last year selling data. Several federal agencies have firehose access via contractors. Any of those companies would love the contract to correlate the information provided with their internal records.
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Isn't forcing users to divulge this information a way around paying for data exports?