UK born American TV personality John Oliver aired a segment on his Last Week Tonight show in which he paid data brokers for the online histories of US lawmakers and promised not to release the information if Congress acts to pass federal privacy legislation. The revealing segment sheds light to a broad US audience about the data brokers who collect and sell online user data. You can watch the segment in the UK if you have a subscription to Sky TV or read the summary in RollingStone.
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