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Digital Privacy Legislation is Civil Rights Legislation
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Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace. Yet companies use it to reach inferences about us, leading to lost employment, credit, and other opportunities.
One unifying thread to this pervasive system is the collection of personal information from marginalized communities, and the subsequent discriminatory use …
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