An installment of Fast Company’s “The Privacy Divide” series looks at how poor and marginalized Americans suffer from an increased loss of privacy. The article accentuates how low-income communities in America have had their data privacy routinely violated for decades. Highlighting policies that failed to prioritize and protect privacy, the article notes how their experience could serve as a cautionary tale for others. “The harms for low-income people of a lack of data privacy are more concrete than for middle- and upper-income people,” University of Baltimore Venable Professor of Law Michele Gilman said. “You become a target of predatory financial services, or on the other extreme you’re excluded from more desirable offerings.”
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