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California bans unregistered data broker reselling health data of millions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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The California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) has taken action against the Datamasters marketing firm that sold the health and personal data of millions of users without being registered as a data broker.

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[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

What a world: “how dare you sell people’s private information… without paying our fee first.”

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, now they won't be able to violate the law, because we've passed a law against that.