Legal system struggling to keep up with how consumers’ data is handled | The Columbus Dispatch

By Steve Johnson
SAN JOSE (CALIF.) MERCURY NEWS
Monday March 9, 2015 8:56

The breakneck pace of this technology has far outrun the legal system’s ability to keep up with it, many experts contend. Because of legal loopholes, consumers often lack any right to control how long their data are kept, who the information is shared with and what is collected about them, including personal information such as their finances, mental health, political leanings and sexual orientation.

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