Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Brokers

Your Exercise Gear Reserves The Right To Track And Sell Data On How You Smell (techdirt.com)
A new Consumer Reports study unsurprisingly finds that popular exercise equipment makers collect way more data on users than is necessary, then sell access to that data to a wide variety of dodgy and largely unregulated data brokers and middle men, who in turn generally play fast and loose with it.
Data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security (netzpolitik.org)