• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Police need a warrant, but websites and regular businesses can collect and link a user’s IP to their personal details and share it with anyone, with no court intervention required.

    How does that make any sense?

    Maybe police will find a way around this loophole by purchasing collected data as an “advertising partner.”

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      8 months ago

      Wasn’t there something like this already? Swear I read couple months ago something about a police force buying data off data brokers to get around protections in place.

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      8 months ago

      Thats why police were signing up to info IP purchase vias ISP and other vendors so they could purchase suspects data outside of the warrant system

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      8 months ago

      It flows that your IP is now PII, and will be subject to regulation. We’ll see when the first lawsuit happens.