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For years, data brokers have collected and resold Americans’ personal information. But the pandemic-fueled rise telehealth and therapy apps has spurred an even more contentious product line: Americans’ mental health data.
How an old privacy law and new security demands force Washington to rely on an industry in the crosshairs.
Third-party data brokers give police warrantless access to 250 million devices.
New technology promises to help companies pool data on consumers without violating data-privacy laws.
Many abortion rights advocates say data brokers selling their personal information online put them at risk.
When data broker SafeGraph got caught selling location information on Planned Parenthood visitors, it had a public relations trick up its sleeve. After the company agreed to remove family planning center data from its platforms in response to public outcry, CEO Auren Hoffman tried to flip the...
Documents obtained by the ACLU through a FOIA lawsuit reveal that federal agencies under the Department of Homeland Security are contracting with data brokers such as Venntel and Babel Street to buy huge amounts of location data without requiring any judicial oversight.
We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me.
Consumer Reports tells you how to delete your information from people-search sites such as Pipl and WhitePages. These sites reveal everything from criminal records to relatives' names.
ISPs are quietly distributing "netflow" data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs.
tl;dr: there's LOTS of it
The data economy depends on violating our right to privacy on a massive scale, collecting as much personal data as possible for profit.