This week's Seriously Risky Business looks at the FTC fining Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile nearly $200M for selling location data, resistance from the cloud industry to the Biden admin's know-your-customer EO, and more. Read the weekly newsletter by Tom Uren: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ftc-is-the-tip-of-the-spear
On today's Lawfare Podcast, Eugenia Lostri talked to Justin Sherman about the FTC’s groundbreaking decision to list sensitive locations about which X-Mode cannot sell data, the likelihood that we will see further FTC action against data brokers, and the persistent need for comprehensive privacy legislation to better address harms.
Justin Sherman, Hayley Barton, Aden Klein, Brady Allen Kruse, and Anushka Srinivasan dive deep into the multibillion-dollar data brokerage ecosystem that gathers and sells data from service members, veterans, and their families.
For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. It is critical that user privacy is not sacrificed in favor of filling the pockets of corporations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data
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