The Washington Post has an article about a recent Congressional hearings into companies that buy and sell personal information.. Here’s my favorite quote from the article…
The committee subpoenaed representatives from 11 companies that use the Internet and phone calls to obtain, market, and sell personal data, but they refused to talk. All invoked their constitutional right to not incriminate themselves when asked whether they sold “personal, non-public information” that had been obtained by lying or impersonating someone.