Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Julie Brill
last week compared the sale of customer information by so-called data
brokers to the intense personal data collection program of the National
Security Agency (NSA), now being investigated by Congress.
“As we live our wired lives, we constantly add to the veins from which data miners pull pure gold,” wrote Brill. The FTC commissioner mostly focused on privacy issues in the The Washington Post last week. “It took the NSA revelations to make concrete what this exchange means: that firms, governments, or individuals, without our knowledge or consent, can amass large amounts of private information about people to use for purposes we don't expect or understand.”
Read more here:http://www.dmnews.com/ftc-commish-likens-data-brokers-to-the-national-security-agency/article/308006/
“As we live our wired lives, we constantly add to the veins from which data miners pull pure gold,” wrote Brill. The FTC commissioner mostly focused on privacy issues in the The Washington Post last week. “It took the NSA revelations to make concrete what this exchange means: that firms, governments, or individuals, without our knowledge or consent, can amass large amounts of private information about people to use for purposes we don't expect or understand.”
Read more here:http://www.dmnews.com/ftc-commish-likens-data-brokers-to-the-national-security-agency/article/308006/
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