Data is incredibly valuable these days, and as long as you aren’t living in internet-less societies, there’s already a host of information on you. It’s all exploitable, and everything has a price, especially for multinational companies that rake in more money on the daily than some of us will ever see over the course of our lives. While the debate over the ethics of selling data heavily carries on, who buys and sells the data is perhaps the more fiery topic. The US government buys data in troves from phone carriers, ISPs, social media companies, and more. This has been going on for years, and it doesn’t seem like there is a slowing down of this practice in sight. On the contrary, according to Proton.