Ad firm plans to use people's data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill
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Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals.

Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals.

One of the world’s largest advertising firms is crafting a campaign to thwart a California bill intended to enhance people’s control over the data that companies collect on them.

According to emails obtained by POLITICO, the Interpublic Group is coordinating an effort against a bill that would make it easier for people to request that data brokers — firms that collect and sell personal information — delete their dossiers.

  • treefrog@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Or to put my longer post another way, there’s never a point in your hypothetical born a sociopath argument where capitalism wasn’t exercising an influence on that organism’s mental health and how it’s expressed.

    Capitalism changes us before we even hit the crib. Check out Gabor Mate M.D.'s book the Myth of Normal. It’s all about this stuff.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Mate’s work is like a poultice on our souls capitalist infection.

      Listening to him speaking some of his work on YouTube has literally brought me to tears.

      Like the phrase, “feeling good is good enough”, just being told it’s ok to simply exist, that existing for existence sake is good enough. Something so simple, but capitalism whittles that away from you before you even hit your 20s.