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We in the United States have a general sense that if we visit the emergency room for a cut on our hand or if we stop by the urgent care

clinic because we have a sore throat that our doctor is not going to go sell

that information on the street corner, right?

That that is a confidential set of activities that's protected by law.

That's, of course, not the case here when you have companies that are gathering location data from your device and selling that information such that other organizations and

this is the law fair.

this is the law fair podcast February 28th

2024 on February 13th 28th, 2024.

On February 13th, Senator Ron Wyden released a letter documenting an investigation his

office has been conducting into the activities of Near Intelligence Inc.

A data broker that allegedly enabled an anti-abortion organization

to target anti-abortion messaging and ads to people visiting 600 Planned Parenthood clinics across the United States.

I sat down with Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber Strategies and a senior fellow at Duke

University's Sanford School of Public Policy to discuss this investigation.

We talked about the various players in the data broker ecosystem

that enable these invasive practices, the lack of federal legislation governing and preventing

these activities, and what actions the FTC might

be able to take against Near Intelligence Inc.

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