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by elliekelly 2528 days ago
> Credit card transaction data have been sold for years without most of us knowing about it.

In practice, yes, most of us are clueless. In theory, if you've seen one of these[1] (and if you're an American, you most certainly have) then you "know about it." The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act has a whole lot of room for improvement, but the single-page uniform privacy disclosure it brought to financial institutions is infinitely more consumer-friendly than 90 pages of 10pt grey legalese used by big tech.

[1] [PDF] https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-re...