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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data | TechCrunch

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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data | TechCrunch

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Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 days ago

The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.

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Well of course. Data brokers pay some bribes and their problems go away

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