Tech Firms Balk At Citizen Data Access

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Can someone actually explain to me why no one questions the tech industry's opposition to this?

The European Union has long championed its citizens' right to submit requests for data that companies hold on them in order to ensure the information is up to date and correct. In recent years, an Austrian law student brought this "habeas data" right into the public spotlight by demanding his Facebook data from the social network. Americans don't have this right -- and generally, relative to the EU, they have little legal protection from the state or federal government against data theft, unauthorized disclosures, and other privacy-related matters.
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Herp Derp? Becuse they dont want to fess up that they sell mined data to informatics for all sorts of things.
 
rand4505 said:
Herp Derp? Becuse they dont want to fess up that they sell mined data to informatics for all sorts of things.
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It's not that they don't want to "fess up," it's that they fear the backlash when everyone learns the reality is far worse than their worse case.
 
It's there own damn fault for not listening to the people who bother to learn how shit works have been screaming privacy violations and Orwellian level activity.
 
A fool and his data soon go separate ways.
 
if they think tech companies are bad wait to you get into banks and insurance companies. Seriously did you think free was really free?
 
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