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rexf | 2 years ago

> I think the solution to data privacy is to require companies to provide the receipts of where they obtained the data.

In the article, Asher and presumably the rest of their industry has many legal avenues for acquiring data. Such as directly from the government:

> the Department of Highway Safety’s trove of vehicle registrations, an untapped resource held separately from M.V.R.s. These the department sold for a penny a record, a low price (relative to those $2 M.V.R.s)

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musicale|2 years ago

This is pretty terrible, so it would be nice to be able to audit the receipts.