As the data broker industry has come into Washington’s sights, it has been pushing back against a proposed law that would limit its ability to harvest millions of people’s information
for selling location data that could have revealed visits to religious institutions, women’s shelters and abortion clinics.
“As long as you rely on such information, you will have these problems with uneven coverage and accuracy,” said Sapiezynski. “The real question is how to go about this differently.”One reason data brokers have become so essential to the government is a decades-old federal law designed to protect citizens’ privacy., passed in 1974, limits the government’s use and sharing of records between federal agencies.
“Agencies can’t just decide to use the data for new purposes without going through a rigorous bureaucratic process, which takes time and resources, and at the end will only allow them to use future data in this way,” said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, the managing director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Washington, D.C., bureau, said.
The workaround still creates a national database of Americans’ data for law enforcement use, but not for citizen services like Login.gov.Congress has attempted to limit data brokers, with proposed bills like theIn the absence of legislative action, is there a workaround for private-sector data brokers?
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