The US government is buying troves of data about Americans
The government couldn't do it this easily if it wasn't for sale.<p>It being for sale means <i>anyone</i> can be doing it which might be a framing that would be more alarming to the law-and-order types.<p>But really you need a two prong solution:<p>1) restrict this from being collected and compiled in the first place, eliminate the ability to default to this tracking unless someone opts out<p>2) restrict the government's ability to use or acquire through non-market-based means. The claim here is that there's already restrictions on this vs directly surveiling, but I haven't seen directly which specific restrictions those are for buying off-the-shelf info and the article doesn't specify.<p>There are very really no companies that I trust to keep my data safe for 10, 20, 50 years. Leadership changes, ownership changes, etc. We have to cut it off at the source.