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Because it's not theirs to sell, data about a person should belong to that person. They should control who it's being shared with.

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I'd be shocked if my cell phone contract said they couldn't sell my data. Why would they do that?

I have plenty of options besides cell phones. I could have a landline, or get my ham license, or pen a letter!

I'm just a subscriber to a private service, after all.

Yeah I think this is the difference in view between EU and US in general :)

As an american, I personally find it disgusting

The potential for abuse of personal private data like location, movement profile, corelation with other movement profiles, etc, is so ginormous it blows my mind it's legal to keep the data for years, let alone to sell it to private companies.

If that is true then that means there is no data privacy protection in the US?

> If that is true then that means there is no data privacy protection in the US?

There may be some very specific data privacy laws (like two-party consent states), but yeah, you should assume no data privacy protection in the US.

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