⚠️New Report: Top US Data Brokers nightmarishly sell personal data of people including “highly sensitive mental health data on Americans including data on those with depression, attention disorder, insomnia, anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar disorder as well as data on ethnicity, age, gender, zip code, religion, children in the home, marital status, net worth, credit score, date of birth, and single parent status.” #DataRights #Privacy #ADPPA https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-americans-mental-health-data/
Obviously the USA needs a #GDPR, something like the #ADPPA maybe? In the meantime, #PermissionSlip by Consumer Reports has been working great for me and nuking data brokers that have scrounged up my data. Thanks to the #CCPA you don’t have to be a California resident to get results. But it’s all a bandaid to actual #DataRights for America. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/permission-slip-by-cr/id1591285074
@profcarroll I'm a #EU and #US citizen and lived in both. Things like "identity theft" are common in the US, it happened to me, but are basically not possible in the EU. Personal data belongs to the person. In the US, the data collectors have rights to collect whatever they want and sell it to whoever, and opening credit in someone's name is too easy. In the EU, you mostly need to do that in person still or maybe over the phone. Some may call that bureaucracy, but it works better overall.
