Data brokers are a cancer, they enable malicious actors to do evil things from deepfakes to phishing to identity theft to racial discrimination and it doesn't stop there
California's privacy obstacle course Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/23/drop-a-dime/
iiradned
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2026-07-23 14:15:27 UTC
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