For years, America's most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives. Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.
@#5 ... unless they are legally restricted and they will do what they can there. The EU actually has far better protections than here were there are almost none. ...
Yup, the EU is far ahead of the US regarding the restrictions of what companes can do with personal data.
Here in the US, the problem is bifurcated, though.
The first aspect is far worse, and what the gun industry seems to be doing, i.e., selling customers' persona info with out the consent f those customers.
The second aspect is still bad, but not as bad because the "consent" of customers appears to be given, usually buried deep in some privacy notice that may be long and intentionally opaque. For example...
It Has Your Money -- and Your Pants Size. Here's What PayPal Is Doing With It.
www.msn.com
... If you shop using PayPal, the payments company is about to start sharing your personal data. Very personal, like your pants size.
Beginning Nov. 27, it will start compiling its trove of customer purchase data to offer to retailers so they can target their advertising. A recent privacy update reads: "Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you'll like." ...
Are you really this dense?
#7 | Posted by LampLighter | Flag: How to not look like a complete moron while posting on the Retort.Or are you being just willingly ignorant?
At least my HTML posts don't butcher the available posting space the way your posts do.
I'm constantly asked if I'm the one supposedly seeking attention.
Is that what you're doing?
If you don't know how to do basic HTML, please reach out.
If you don't know basic HTML and cannot figure this out, and do not want to become informed, well, then Congratulations
Inquiring minds want to know.
Are you really this dense?
#9 | Posted by LampLighter | Flag: How to not look like a complete moron while posting on the Retort.Or are you being just willingly ignorant?
At least my HTML posts don't butcher the available posting space the way your posts do.
I'm constantly asked if I'm the one supposedly seeking attention.
Is that what you're doing?
If you don't know how to do basic HTML, please reach out.
If you don't know basic HTML and cannot figure this out, and do not want to become informed, well, then, congratulations
Inquiring minds want to know.
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