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Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the ftc-just-wants-a-peek dept.

New submitter FreaKBeaNie writes "Earlier this month, the FTC issued 9 orders to data brokerage companies to learn more about their privacy practices. Data brokers are skilled at connecting quasi-private data with publicly available data, like voter rolls, housing sales, and now gun ownership records. Unlike merchants or business partners, these data brokers may or may not have had any interaction with the 'subjects' of their data collection."

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  1. Now we'll get privacy by Animats · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once this starts hitting gun owners, we'll hear screams for stronger privacy legislation.

    Dear Mr. Savage: As an AR-15 owner, you need the best magazines and ammo! Stainless steel 30 round magazines for your assault rifle! Great deals on bulk ammo! This is the good stuff, military grade Federal XM855 Green Tip Steel Penetrator! Made in USA! 500 rounds per box! Check out our ammo can bundles! Order today! And don't forget your AR-15 cleaning kit. (Expect delays due to high order volume).

    (There's been a big increase in assault rifle sales since the last school massacre. Hence the ordering delays.)

    1. Re:Now we'll get privacy by galtgamer · · Score: 0, Troll

      Christ. No one is selling assault rifles in the US. No one. They're already illegal.

      Thanks, Mr Gun Manufacturer. What part of shooting 30 rounds as fast as I can pull my trigger finger is not an assault? Stop using the NRA's, manufacturer's and their lobbyists' terminology and start using your brain. Semi-automatic or automatic is still an assault. It is a weapon of mass destruction. What part of 30 dead humans (and more if one swaps out the clip and keeps pulling their li'l ol' finger) is not a mass? No one can kill as many people as quickly with a knife as one can with a semi-automatic gun. This is a fact. If you lined up 30 humans and had someone slit their throats as quickly as possible, it still wouldn't be as fast as a gun. One can be far away from a human and kill them with a finger pull. Semi-automatic weapons should be restricted to firing ranges and closed outdoor hunting ranges where they can be tracked and monitored at all times.