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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/19/data-brokers-sell-rape-victim-names-for-7-9-cents-each-congressional-hearing-reveals/

http://mythbuster43.blogspot.com/2013/12/data-brokers-to-rape-victims-we-sold.html

Absolutely fucking detestable. I really should stop expecting to find a rock bottom for humanity because there clearly isn't one. Anyone who profits off of tragedy and the suffering of other people is the worst kind of human parasite.
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What the wha
That said, I've stopped trying to anticipate what people around here want a while ago, I've found it makes things smoother.
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And this is why free market should never equal unregulated market in anything that claims to be a civilized country.

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I am a bit confused.
Who are they selling this information to, and how are those people using the information?

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Data brokers sell personal information of everybody for profit
FTFY

This is a free-market surveillance society. Don't like it? Lobby for government regulations on advertiser datamining.
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"...police officers’ home addresses..."

I don't know if that's happening outside the US, but where I'm from - a country that only recently got out of the habbit of planting bombs under police officers' private vehicles, and where that threat still exists - that is EXTREMELY dangerous and irresponsible information to be selling (not that I expect it's 100% safe in any other part of the world either).

That's why there was fury when Google's Street View contained photos of private vehicles entering and exiting police stations with their number plates fully visable and readable.  Google was forced to blur the number plates in all such images (and now I think they actually blur all number plates everywhere as a matter of course).

PS If anyone's wondering why I picked up on that and ignored the whole rape victim thing it's because I haven't much to add; everyone else has pretty much summed up my feelings already.

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Data brokers sell personal information of everybody for profit
FTFY

This is a free-market surveillance society. Don't like it? Lobby for government regulations on advertiser datamining.

Somehow I get the feeling lobbying won't work.

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