On 10/6/20, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.quora.com/q/techinsider/The-IRS-is-under-investigation-for-buying-Americans-smartphone-location-data-from-private-surveillance-companies
The hundred thousands articles over decades about data sharing only cover half the problem. The other half, in fact larger problem, is that ever since birth certificates, credit cards, BBS, internet, smartphones, etc... people have known that they and their data are being raped with little reason, payment, or recourse. Not only do they know, but they fail to do anything about it. They need to raise hell up and down the govcorp halls, flood their call and ticket centers with complaints, quit using the shit, sell the stock, and start new companies that don't fuck over their users, let users be the authoritative source and broker over all copies of their own data, and let users pay [anon or not] with cryptocurrency, cash in mail, etc. Companies that respect their users are just as valuable in the market as #OpenHW will be.
