General Discussion

.... and collectors.

The private data brokers/aggregators vacuums up valid and questionable data for his massive data bsse. Then offers this data for sale. The buyer of the data likes dealing with a private data broker who sells the collected data for a fee. But if anything goes bad in the provenance of the data. The buyer/user just says I bought the data on the open market,... I had no knowledge or intentions to violate anyone's privacy,.. so don't blame innocent little me.

They are all attempting to give each other plausible deniability for use and sale of data which should otherwise remain safely behind the walls of privacy and common human decency. M.Y.O.B. with an exclamation point is the message that should slap them all in the face or hitting them with costly lawsuits might be a viable remedy.