Closing the Data Broker Loophole

2026-04-14 15:53 UTC

I found this, it’s about the data broker loophole. The problem is, in the US we have 4th Amendment protection against warantless searches. Many other nations, have a similar right, by another name. Canada has Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These are more and more bypassed by data brokers. The government purchases data from data brokers. Data it could not get without a warant in the past. Maybe this is not as much a problem yet in Canada as in the US? I’m not sure, hope some Canadians can say how it is? But here in the US, it’s a massive prob now. Related: We Built a Surveillance State: What Now?

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@Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2026-04-15 11:30

We don't need to close the loophole. We need to make it illegal for ANYONE to digitally stalk us and create digital data troves on us. They should be restricted to a narrow data gathering of what we give them for the purpose we give them the data for. I don't want corporations collecting and selling data that I don't trust the government with. A world where they still do that but the government "isn't allowed to buy it" isn't much better than what we have. Worse, it could enshrine their right to gather it.

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