chillpanzee

Sounds like every other religion. If AI is mimicking human behavior, creating mystic nonsense isn't a stretch.

Worked there for 16 years. Not 16 years old.

Yeah, it's not an accurate indication of what changed. As of Jan 2026, California has a new law and registry where residents can register with the State to have the state demand that the data brokers (those who bother to register with the CA Sec of State anyway) remove the California resident's data.

It's got a fairly slow compliance deadline, so it'll be a while before the whole rigamarole of some non-compliant broker actually getting fined, lawsuit, appeal, and an eventual majority opinion written by Associate Justice Butchug stating why California doesn't have the right to protect its citizens because of some bullshit application of the interstate commerce clause and how it will cause undue harm to the data brokers that have him on payroll.

It probably won't change much for the average person, but at least the lawyers finally get a win.

A lot of classes aren't in person any more.

I suppose schools could force online classes to test in person, but they seem to favor shitty proctoring and anti-cheating software instead.

Perfectly legal. Unless they were legally charged and ordered by a court to preserve data considered to be used in a crime, they can’t be charged with shit. Cops don’t dictate this, courts do, AND that scope only applies to an active prosecution anyway.

I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not arguing that you're wrong here, but the article describes the federal law the journalist was charged with. It seems very broad, and it's a bullshit law, but from what's here, it seems more grey area than perfectly legal. All of 2232 seems to require knowledge (which it seems like he had, but might be arguable) and action. You could argue that the journalist didn't take any affirmative action to wipe the phone. The action that wiped it was the feds entering a code.

They could solve this problem and a bunch of others by banning the surveillance and collection of user data without consent.

I see the /s there, but it feels as likely as not.

There are many parts of the world where the ISPs really are that bad, and consumers don't have the choice to switch to a competitor that isn't equally bad.