alt Hacker NewsWhy data brokers are allowed to collect your data without an explicit consent in the first place is a question no one yet seems to address.
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terminalshort • last Monday at 5:45 AM
All those TOS you just click the box and don't read give companies permission to sell your data to third parties.
Indeed. The CCPA is welcome, but this explicit opt-out just means that only broccoli of the technical caliber that frequents HN will realistically benefit from the law. This needs to go a step further and make opt-out the default for all to benefit. And it is the social duty of the technical broccoli that understand these things that need to push this for everyone's benefit.