Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data – The Markup
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Executives should face criminal charges. But in reality, it’ll be a handful of small fines, business as usual, nothing to see here.
This was already posted here: https://lemm.ee/post/1046182
The only sensible solution to this sort of thing is to liquidate any company guilty of this.
Aha. Great insight.
Can we also talk about all the data collection and analysis which the govt. NSA/CIA/etc. do? 😇
Well of course, sir. Anyone interested in knowing more about how the total surveillance of all us is possible can read more on the Edward Snowden revelations on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden?wprov=sfla1 and The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files.
Is anyone surprised?
Yes, but at the same time no.