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"We’ve noted for years that the adtech sector is a convoluted, unregulated
hellscape, where consumer data is bought and sold with nothing remotely close
to competent oversight. The end result is just about what you’d expect: a
percussive parade of massive scandals in which location, financial, and other
sensitive data is bought, sold, leaked, abused, hacked, and spread far and wide
with little real recourse.
Despite this, the U.S. still hasn’t passed even a baseline privacy law for the
Internet era. And while some folks will insist it’s because it’s too hard, the
real reason is because there’s simply too much money being made; and wealth
accumulation, if you hadn’t noticed in the United States, trumps all things.
Last week John Oliver did a fantastic bit explaining the (quite intentionally)
complicated, ethics-optional mess that is adtech, with a specific focus on data
brokers"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
