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Data Brokers: How Your Personal Data Becomes Business

You’ve been planning on fixing your brakes and Googling auto repair shops. At the same time, you have been longing to buy butterscotch fudge ripple ice cream and searching for it on your Instacart app ...
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Data Brokers Have a File on You. Here's How to See What's Inside

It shouldn't surprise you that your personal information is floating around online. From old photos to contact details to banking records, a lot of your very personal data is easily accessible. And ...
Forbes

Data Brokers Fuel Scams: Senate Report On Billions Of Consumer Losses

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 12: Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) the ranking member of the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee ...
Times-Standard

Delete Act: How you can request your personal information be purged by data brokers in the New Year

Use a loyalty card at a drug store, browse the web, post on social media, get married or do anything else most people do, and chances are companies called data brokers know about it — along with your ...
PC World

Data brokers want your information. Don’t let them take it

Our data is a precious commodity, not only to us but to the many potential customers of data brokers who collect and sell it without our knowledge. Once obtained the information can then be used to ...
KPBS

Following CalMatters investigation, Congress finds data brokers cost consumers tens of billions of dollars

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Breaches at data brokers have cost American consumers more than $20 billion, Congress’s Joint Economic Committee ...