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Title: Supreme Court Says You Can’t Sue the Corporation that Wrongly Marked You A Terrorist
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URL Source: https://www.activistpost.com/2021/0 ... ly-marked-you-a-terrorist.html
Published: Jun 29, 2021
Author: staff
Post Date: 2021-06-29 14:40:48 by Horse
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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court late last week barred the courthouse door to thousands of people who were wrongly marked as “potential terrorists” by credit giant TransUnion. The Court’s analysis of their “standing” —whether they were sufficiently injured to file a lawsuit—reflects a naïve view of the increasingly powerful role that personal data, and the private corporations that harvest and monetize it, play in everyday life. It also threatens Congressional efforts to protect our privacy and other intangible rights from predation by Facebook, Google and other tech giants...
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#2. To: Horse (#0)
This is a finding of statutory nature, not constitutional nature, so the remedy would simply be congressional action passing a law making such damaging credit determinations civilly liable. Then the USSC would go along with it.
Or whatever legislative action is needed, given the details of the matter.

Pinguinite posted on 2021-06-29 17:03:24 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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