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My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

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Re: My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

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The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) states that they they have limited access to commercially available data, and that they are used in line with relevant rules and regulations

Well sure, relevant being the operative word here. For the US CBP the only relevance is US law, since the USA has no concept of data subject ownership -- in the US, all data is owned by whoever holds it, not who it is about.

Re: My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

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This is essential work, using the GDPR as a tool for data privacy journalism. Unfortunately, GDPR is only the beginning and lots of work like this needs to be done to uncover the breadth of the damage that is being done daily. Also, as the article states this shows that stronger laws need to be in place all over the globe.
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