Protecting your personal information from data brokers

How aware are you that your personal information could be bought and sold without your consent—and that there are companies whose entire business model revolves around this? So, these companies, called data brokers, collect everything they can about you – where you shop, what you search online, even stuff from public records – and then sell it to other companies, mostly for ads. The real problem lies in the lack of transparency since most people … More → The post Protecting your personal information from data brokers appeared first on Help Net Security.
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