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     Andhravodu Kurra Bewarse Username: Andhravodu Post Number: 1384 Registered: 04-2017 Posted From: 69.62.241.11 Rating: N/A |
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html Now he began to think about tech companies a lot. He started reading about online tracking and data mining. He discovered that the United States, unlike some countries, has no single, comprehensive law regulating the collection and use of personal data. The rules that did exist were largely established by the very companies that most relied on your data, in privacy policies and end-user agreements most people never actually read. Mactaggart began to scrutinize these policies closely, the way he read loan contracts and pored over offering plans. He learned that there was no real limit on the information companies could collect or buy about him — and that just about everything they could collect or buy, they did .... .... Now you could see exactly what information Silicon Valley and the data brokers had collected about you. You could still demand that they stop selling or swapping your data. And if they refused, the California attorney general could investigate and impose fines. The legislation would not take effect until 2020, and both the Legislature and the tech industry would have a chance to amend the new law beforehand |