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They don't sell your data TODAY.

Who knows what they'd sell if their business declined for a while and there was a hostile takeover or they otherwise got desperate for new revenue streams.

And then if you were paying attention you could make a new one of these requests... but maybe you'd miss it for a bit, and then it would be too late.

The law should be based on what you collect instead of what you sell to better protect against this sort of thing.



Thats not relevant of what they could do. This laws covers what you are doing and applies to entities selling your data. Big ad players don't sell their data because that is their secret sauce in ad targeting.

Companies selling your data are your bank(credit card purchases), mobile carriers(location), your DMV(photos, driving record, misc PII including address, dob etc), state/county government(public records like marriage licenses). Its weird everyone bashes on google and FB for something they don't even do.




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