Senator says NSA is buying up Americans' browser habits
go.theregister.com
If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great
  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    they make enough money

    You're expecting a private company to stop at "enough"?

    selling it would actually end up LOSING them profit as that money would go to other advertising agencies.

    They do both.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      They literally don't. I don't know why you feel the need to infer some super secret financial transactions. The article is talking about "above-board" financial transactions on ad data marketplaces. Any data transferred to the US government is using their other programs which probably are more convoluted than just handing over money.