We just need to pool money and start buying info from lawmakers’ cars. When it’s their info being published, I bet they’ll have a much more positive response to cracking down.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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People who are blindly data driven piss me off so much. It leads to these practices where they demand data and act like they have the right to collect it.
They often don’t like to act like they have to properly protect the data either.
FTC: "We are very angry with you and we are going to write a blog post telling you how angry we are."
The FTC will take ten years to accomplish nothing of value -- and even whatever fig-leaf ruling they issue will be sued into oblivion, or voided by the Supreme Court.
Privacy is dead because killing it was in the interest of too many wealthy and powerful companies, government agencies, and individuals for it to have ended up any other way.
The country needs far stronger privacy laws.
But that will never happen since we legalized bribery
Wasn't it Merkel years ago with whom car data belongs to: the telecommunication provider or the vendor?
Please don't be another fed fake charade to paper over gross misconduct of our corpo daddies
In the past I would have been dismissive however the FTC seems to have been very active with enforcing consumer protections as of late so I remain hopeful.
Lina Khan, the current chair of the FTC, seems to have a history with anti-trust legal research and seems to actively care about pursuing anti-competitive industries.
I truly wish her all the best in this regulatory captured mess.
I'm disappointed to learn that she was born British so she can never run for president in America.
.. Not that the FTC chair is known to be a pipeline to the presidency, but I'm ready to turn over every stone at this point.
Good thing people voted hard in 2020.
FTC won’t do shit about it, calling it now
I mean, the FTC is doing something. It's the courts I'm more concerned with.
In 6 months, automakers will be suing all the way to the Supreme Court challenging the FTC's regulatory authority (like every frigging industry is doing for every regulatory body nowadays).
!RemindMe-6 months
They're like a bunch of petulant children screaming, "I don't want to, and you can't make me!".
They used to follow regulations, or at least pretended to.
Now they all sue because they know they have a decent chance of having regulations overthrown by a court system stacked with pro-corporate justices that have zero respect for precedent or the general piblic.
And for a low price of a billion dollars, the potential for the executive branch to capitulate to the oligopolies!
The worst part is, look into the public records of all of the corrupt politicians. Most were bought for under $10k.
Donald as always overestimating what he is worth. I'd just buy members of Congress for far cheaper. Or do nothing: Russia has already purchased them and will force Donald to deregulate shit regardless.
Congress members are like low tens of thousands to purchase. SCOTUS rulings are the price of an RV.