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Advocate @uspirg / writer. KS-CO-MA. Protecting folks in the new age of technological change & corporate abuse (and telling jokes while we're at it)
Sep 21, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
Mastercard knows where you shop, on what day, and how much you spend - and it sells that data widely to third parties like data brokers and advertisers. Our new investigation out today: 1/pirg.org/edfund/resourc… Mastercard has multiple channels it uses to sell transaction data. Mastercard is present on a lot of the major 3rd party data marketplaces, like LiveRamp, Oracle’s BlueKai, and Amazon’s Data Exchange 2/ aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp…
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Feb 14, 2020 29 tweets 8 min read
Good morning & welcome to this #ValentinesDay2020 tweet thread of the sketchiest things I found in the Terms of Service & Privacy Practices of your favorite dating app.

(if your favorite dating app is Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, Okcupid, or lord help you Ashley Madison) (1/) Unsurprising Discovery 1: All of them have arbitration agreements. Sign up and you waive your right to have your case heard before a judge and jury. You also can’t join together with a bunch of wronged users in a class action lawsuit against them – any of them. (2/) Image