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Comment We need "HIPAA for location data" (Score 4, Insightful) 31

Right now, it is legal for third parties like Flock to collect surveillance data and offer it for sale to anyone.
The third party doctrine makes it presumed OK for third parties to give or sell their data to the Government.
This is rapidly eroding Fourth Amendment guarantees in the US.

One possible way out would be to specify in federal law that data that can enable mass surveillance must be protected - leaking it gets you fined, government doesn't get it without a warrant.

The HIPAA laws are a potential model here - they basically say data related to health care can only be shared between certain businesses, and only with the permission of the person the data is about.

Comment Re:People don't learn (Score 1) 37

This is a clearly uneducated/basement dweller position to take. How embarassing for you.

The target market for these things is not exclusively people who know how search engines work or can even understand the warning. People increasingly have exceptionally poor levels of reading comprehension and it's even worse when the subject matter is outside of their expertise. This is well understood and not any sort of surprise to people who have social interactions with other people outside of their it/dev/ work silo.

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