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Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

I swim D3. No scholarships, no NIL deals, 5 am practice because I love it. Nobody is making money off me and I'm not making money off anyone. If athletes become employees, what am I? An employee of the school for swimming slow? The whole employment conversation is about football and men's basketball, and the rest of us are just supposed to accept whatever system they design. My team would probably get cut the day payroll starts. I didn't come here to be labor or management. I came to race.

Should location privacy violations trigger automatic independent audits?

A regulator cannot verify a fix from a press release. The FTC has required companies to obtain [independent audits every other year for 20 years](https://WWW.FTC.GOV/news-events/news/press-releases/2011/06/ftc-approves-final-orders-settling-charges-companies-failed-protect-consumers-personal-information) in security orders. Location data is sensitive and easy to copy, so an automatic audit after a proven violation gives the public a baseline guarantee that deletion, consent, and retention controls actually work.

Both sides assume all restaurants are the same. A busy steakhouse server and a diner waitress on a Tuesday live in different economies. Maybe the answer is raising the floor, not one national rule.

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