Tag: data brokers
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Automakers sold your driving data for pennies. You paid for it in your insurance bill.
So – I see people are actually starting to pay attention to who gets to see their private data! Awesome! Cause I can talk about this all day! I’ll start by restating my stance on private data: You should have to opt in to any use of it – and you should be paid if…
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The government won’t protect your data. The government is buying your data.
Your phone told somebody where you slept last night. Nobody hacked it. The apps on it are built to share your location, and a whole industry exists to buy it. Here’s the pipeline. You download a free app – a weather app, a game, a prayer app, a period tracker. The app grabs your location…