Bass Pro Shops Sued for Sharing Customer Firearm Purchase Data with Facebook

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Bass Pro Shops was sued 9 times by customers for sharing their browsing and purchasing activity with Facebook. This video examines the details of those lawsuits and the issue of massive amounts of data being collected on individuals without their knowledge. Here are links to all the sources I used for this video including a direct link to a .pdf copy of one of the 9 lawsuits.

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https://www.classaction.org/news/bass-pro-shops-cabelas-secretly-share-consumers-firearm-purchases-with-facebook-class-action-says

https://www.classaction.org/news/bass-pro-shops-illegally-wiretaps-website-users-class-action-alleges

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/bass-pro-shops-and-cabelas-beat-website-surveillance-lawsuits

https://www.ibisworld.com/us/company/bps-direct-llc/10005/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1131415/bass-pro-retail-sales-us/

https://www.similarweb.com/website/basspro.com/#overview

https://www.similarweb.com/website/cabelas.com/#overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Kearney

https://www.classaction.org/media/irvin-v-cabelas-et-al-llc.pdf

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/01/the-little-known-data-broker-industry-is-spending-big-bucks-lobbying-congress

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/how-political-campaigns-use-your-data-target-you