One leading privacy lawmaker said it was time to “start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.”

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Haaaaaaaang on. The ad industry has been targeting civilians for literal decades, and that’s fine. No outrage from our government that it’s citizens are being spied on by big businesses. Nope.

    But now that it’s your own armies that are getting targeted ads, NOW it’s a problem. You realize that if you’d have had this reaction 20+ years ago, it would have ended 20+ years ago. It never would have advanced to the stages it’s been at for years. It would be all highway billboards and dumb advertisements.

    But it’s ok. You don’t give a shit about your citizens. Not even just the current administration. I’m talking basically every administration since Clinton. Could have stepped in at any time, and yet I never once remember the government trying to do ANYTHING to help put any road blocks against corporations abusing citizens. If anything, it feels like you’re in bed together.

    So it comes as no surprise that you didn’t care then, but NOW you do.

    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      the smell of unsurprise fills the air

      None of them care about anything but money or the power it gives them