WGAL: Data brokers sell your personal information with little regulation

“‘So, a data broker is a company that processes, aggregates and analyzes data to create inferences about us,’ said Sara Geoghegan of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington.”

“Geoghegan explained that the data broker industry, valued at an estimated $200 billion, is largely unregulated. ‘This is the Wild West and it’s really harmful. There are crimes that happen. This can lead to so many invasions of privacy, but also real-life harms,’ she said.”

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