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Law enforcement buying info off data brokers, using it in court?!
An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the surface the enforcement doesn’t look so remarkable: A ‘small’ ~€220K fine was handed to a Sweden-headquartered European digital marketing company, Bisnode, which has an office in Poland, […]
You’ve probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they’ve heard a lot about you. A list, and tips for opting out.
Do you know who’s collecting information on you? If you’ve applied for a job, apartment or insurance, chances are you’ve had a background check run on you. These reports can include information on your income, loan payments, debts, and on and on, and consumer reporting companies can even include a “risk score” for you.
The Apple CEO wants to bring data brokers out of the shadows. Don't expect them to go quietly.
By Chris Hoofnagle - University of California, Berkeley | They claim not to sell data, but Facebook and Google have paid developers with data. This selling of your personal data is central to platform economics. Could quality signals change the terms of the bargain?
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
While many companies now collect a whole lot of our information, there’s really only one industry that doesn’t want us to know much about it in exchange.
College-planning surveys give a peek into the opaque and little-regulated market of data-mining of minors.
An example of what Exactis knew about somebody. Redacted.
While Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are hogging the spotlight, data brokers that collect your information from hundreds of sources and sell it wholesale are laughing all the way to the bank. But they're not laughing in Vermont, where a first-of-its-kind law hems in these dangerous data mongers and gives the state's citizens much-needed protections.
