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House Passes Privacy Bill Banning Data Brokers Selling Info to Russia, China

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> However, the bill is narrowly targeted and only applies to third-party data brokers. The legislation doesn’t ban American tech companies like Meta, Apple, or X from doing almost anything they want with the data they collect on users.

It would be nice if Congress took domestic privacy seriously but they're probably receiving too much money from tech companies. The EU has moved the needle in this area, and it has made it painfully clear we just have less privacy than them.

I noticed that too and agree. Baby steps I guess...

"But feel free to continue flagrantly trading in peoples privacy with other countries, third parties and major corporations, and of course with out rightful government agencies, free of nearly all restraint". Yes of course.

Also, Good thing neither Russian or Chinese agencies/companies have any capacity whatsoever to secretly buy this data through indirect means from all the rest of the world's sources that it can still be sold to. Not a chance of that loophole forming.

edit: our*

There was recent news alleging the russians are using US satellite data for their missile attacks on Ukraine.

It didn’t make the news, but Israel is using US satellite data for their strikes against the civilian Palestinian population.

It does make the news, we also have laws about satellite imagery and Israel and it's a pretty well-known fact the US shares intelligence with Israel which everyone always injects in any conversation about Gaza. They also have their own Ofeq and EROS series, so they're not in complete darkness regardless.

It's also irrelevant to this conversation, as Israel is an actual ally, while Russia/China are not, so I really don't understand why you would bring this up in this conversation other than to muddy the waters with whatboutism.

Why would China buy from brokers when they have Tik-Tok?

TikTok doesn't ingest everything, right? And extra data is very useful, even if only for cross referencing and generally improving the quality of the datasets.

so sell it to another country, then Russia and China buys from them. Sounds pointless

Like any propaganda, it is not pointless. You _must_ underestand than _only_ those countries will use the data to do harm. FAANG will only use the data to improve their services. /s

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