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Data Broker That Sold Phone Locations Lobbied FCC to Scrap User Consent (vice.com)
16 points by jakobdabo on Jan 23, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The way I read it:

A guy who made money by selling user data lobbied to pass a law that lets him get access to even more data to sell.

If you make money off something, you want more of that "something" :)




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