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I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

at least we banned TikTok* (sold it to Trump's billionaire friends)

Congress also quickly moved to pass a law protecting the privacy of rich jet owners, so that's nice

the U.S. is too corrupt to function perhaps my friends at libertarian "free market" think tanks can crack this case

we don't have meaningful data broker regulations and a functional modern privacy law for two reasons: 1. Congress has been corrupted by a vast web of industries who have prioritized money over public safety and national security. 2. The U.S. exploits this to spy on Americans and avoid warrants.

Poor @wyden.senate.gov out here doing all the heavy lifting on privacy while Congress rots from the inside out from corruption the country refuses to do anything about.

It really is cute when Americans are like India is so corrupt and meanwhile the US is just doing the same thing in different ways.

we have no room to talk about any other country at this point It's a total fucking clown show