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by miga 867 days ago
While upsetting civil rights, one cannot leave commercial data brokers unmonitored by agencies.

If only because they should be able estimate risk of and prevent criminal activity on home soil.

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> one cannot leave commercial data brokers unmonitored by agencies

That’s a feature haha. The largest lobbies are banks and organizations using those data brokers. The government leaves them alone, so they too can use them. It’s a way around laws.