San Diego Awarded GE Mass Surveillance Contract Without Oversight
> "General Electric has already made more than $1 billion dollars selling San Diego residents’ data to Wall Street"<p>Where does this figure come from? Is it even accurate at all? If this is actually true I'd be interested in seeing what kind of data they sell and who buys it. I'm really questioning the reliability of the article just because of this figure that seemingly just comes from nowhere.<p>Also, I live in San Diego, so I'm a little freaked out. This literally sounds like something out of 1984.<p>edit: I think they might be talking about Current, a GE subsidary that they sold to a wall street firm. Theres no financial figure disclosed. But it seems like they mainly do large-scale energy efficient lighting for commerical purposes. I would not classify that as 'selling data'.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(AIP_subsidiary)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(AIP_subsidiary)</a>