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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh they totally are. Maybe not this directly, but there is an awful depth to the data market. One company may be selling to the next and the next and you end up with companies just buying all the data they can to sell police surveillance software running off of fucking Candy Crush telemetry.