this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
361 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
58137 readers
5226 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This shouldn't be about making it so 3 letter agencies can't buy data. It should be about making it illegal to collect and sell that data in the first place.
This. They're definitely barking up the wrong tree here. The problem isn't that government agencies can simply buy it from brokers. The problem is that companies and data brokers can collect all this data in the first place.
I feel like this is the forest-through-the-trees comment. The data shouldn’t exist and that should be the direction of legislation. If it’s available for purchase then I think it would be weird that any schmuck could buy it but not the government. If the data collection is stopped, no one gets it and everyone wins.
Also, if something is technically possible but illegal for the CIA/FBI/etc to do, it just means they have to try to hide the fact they're still doing it
Agreed. If I can't buy it, why shouldn't the FBI be allowed? But if the data doesn't exist then neither of us can buy it and the problem goes away.
The law will say feds can't buy data*
*unless they want to for "reasons"
They still need data to be collected on everyone. They're just going to start buying the data of all the "bad" people which will be a third of the population.