Data brokers are launching an attack on proposed CA legislation #SB362 that would let people opt out from all #databroker services en masse. Because they know everyone will do it if they can. The #DELETEAct would be good for Californians. Tell your legislator you support it and don't let these dodgy businesses kill it. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/16/ad-industry-tries-to-quash-proposed-data-broker-regulations-00111513

Scammers outside the US often buy target lists of US citizens from domestic data brokers:
"For example, we brought a criminal case against Epsilon Data Management, one of the largest marketing companies in the world. Epsilon used sophisticated data modeling to identify consumers most likely to respond to solicitations. They then sold the data of more than 30 million Americans to perpetrators of elder fraud schemes."
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/principal-deputy-assistant-attorney-general-brian-boynton-delivers-remarks-white-house
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#DOJ #scam #fraud #DataBroker #marketing #epsilon

#CDT Comments to #CFPB Lay Out #DataBroker Harms That Should Be Held Accountable - Center for Democracy and Technology

https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-comments-to-cfpb-lay-out-data-broker-harms-that-should-be-held-accountable/

Doing an interview in a few hours about the horrors of #databrokers and why the #CADeleteAct is no necessary! What’s your favorite #databroker parade of horribles? Selling location info about planned parenthood visits? Home address of #abortion protestors? Grouping people in “#depression prone” or “freq. purchasers of pregnancy kits”? How about NDIO calling commercial data sets a threat to #privacy, #civilliberties and #NationalSecurity ? Sound off! #California #legislation #law

Gizmodo: A Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Ban the Sale of Your Cell Phone Location Data https://gizmodo.com/massachusetts-location-shield-act-aclu-data-brokers-abo-1850624220 #dobbsvjacksonwomenshealthorganization #americancivillibertiesunion #datareidentification #informationprivacy #technologyinternet #internetprivacy #dataprotection #socialissues #humanrights #databroker #research #privacy #wade #roe

"Despite established protocols for the purchase and use of personal information, Defendants systematically scraped 300 billion words from the internet, 'books, articles, websites and posts – including personal information obtained without consent.' #OpenAI did so in secret, and without registering as a #databroker as it was required to do under applicable law." https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/

Wenn du verstehen möchtest, wie dieses System der personalisierten #Werbung funktioniert, warum es problematisch ist und was es mit diesem Fund von mehr als 650.000 😨 Zielgruppensegmenten genau auf sich hat, dann empfehle ich dir, mal hier reinzuhören 👂 [39 min]. ⬇️

Off/On – der Podcast von netzpolitik.org: #271 Off The Record: Die große Datenbroker-Recherche

Webseite der Episode: https://netzpolitik.org/2023/271-off-the-record-die-grosse-datenbroker-recherche/

Mediendatei: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2023/06/23-06-OTR-data-broker.mp3

#ProgrammaticAdvertising #tracking #databroker

@themarkup Well I'm doing the comparison and guess who isn't registered on the California or Vermont data broker registries?

So far it looks like:
* Nielson
* Grapeshot
* Zeotap
* Crossix
* Peer39
* Netsprint

Why don't these businesses consider themselves brokers bound to the registration requirements of the California and Vermont #databroker registries? And what will the California and Vermont OAG do about it?

"Looking for lists of people with #depression, #anxiety, #bipolar disorder, #PTSD, or #OCD? [...] lots of companies who would love to sell it to you. They can even include #names, #emails, home #addresses, #income, #ethnicity, and details about people’s children. [...] One company offers records on the #mental #health of 10,000 people starting at $0.20, with a discount if you buy in bulk."

https://gizmodo.com/depression-anxiety-brokers-sell-mental-health-data-1850107119

#privacy #DataBroker #DigitalSelfDefense

"Looking for lists of people with #depression, #anxiety, #bipolar disorder, #PTSD, or #OCD? No problem. There are lots of companies who would love to sell it to you. They can even include #names, #emails, home #addresses, #income, #ethnicity, and details about people’s children. [...] One company offers records on the #mental #health of 10,000 people starting at $0.20, with a discount if you buy in bulk."

https://gizmodo.com/depression-anxiety-brokers-sell-mental-health-data-1850107119

#privacy #DataBroker #DigitalSelfDefense

Data broker #Acxiom promises not to collect info that could be used in #abortion -related prosecutions - MarketWatch

Acxiom makes public statement after disclosing the policy to MarketWatch amid pressure from shareholders

#databroker

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/large-data-broker-promises-not-to-collect-info-that-could-be-used-in-abortion-related-prosecutions-ff09aa6d

⟨ " … a broader problem — our nation’s overall failure to address concerns over the huge amount of personal data collected in our digital lives […]

In fact, China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law requires Chinese companies to furnish any customer information relevant to China’s national security. […]

Moreover, if it wanted to collect information on Americans, China could sidestep a ban and legally, though with a little more effort, purchase almost limitless amounts of information from data brokers who stockpile information about our online activities.

If we had comprehensive laws that limit the collection and misuse (including the potential export to China) of Americans’ online personal data, then fears about the Chinese authorities using the app for surveillance and data collection would be greatly reduced. The freewheeling data broker business would also be restricted, so all that data would no longer be readily available. " ⟩

by Glenn S. Gerstell, former general counsel of the National Security Agency and Central Security Service from 2015 to 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/opinion/tiktok-ban-china.html

I continue to believe that the use of data brokers by both the public and the private sector for remote identity proofing entrenches them in people's day to day life.

This is also why I no longer believe that match/no-match data validation services are the way to implement a public sector identity validation capability for use by the private sector.

https://www.cyberforge.com/not-better-identity/

#DigitalIdentity #IdentityValidation #OMB #M1917 #SharedServices #GovTech #CivicTech #DataBroker #Privacy #DataProtection #IdentityProofing

An Interview With the Guy Who Has All Your Data 🕵️‍♂️ : Chad Engelgau is the CEO of Acxiom, a data broker that operates one of the world’s biggest repositories of consumer information.

https://gizmodo.com/acxiom-ceo-chad-engelgau-data-broker-interview-privacy-1849977330

#DataBroker #ConsumerInformation #GDPR #Acxiom

Digitale Gesellschaft Schweiz

#DataLinking #DataBroker
Data Broker sind Datenhändler, die Daten über uns von vielen Quellen beziehen, diese integrieren, Profile daraus bilden und diese oder die integrierten Daten anschliessend weiterverkaufen.
https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2022/12/01/data-linking-data-broker-dossier-tracking-profiling/

Data Linking & Data Broker https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2022/12/01/data-linking-data-broker-dossier-tracking-profiling/ #Überwachung #DataLinking #DataBroker #Profiling

Das gigantische #Tracking-Arsenal von #Oracle:
"Oracle steht in Sachen Datenhandel dem grössten Datenkonzern #Google in nichts nach..." ... und "...ist ziemlich dick im Geschäft mit Bundesbehörden" der #Schweiz.Lesenswerter Artikel der #Republik-Autorin Adrienne Fichter auf #DNIP.
@adfichter
#Datenschutz #Privacy #EDÖB #addthis #databroker #Cookies #TrackingPixel #MobileID #BlueKai
https://dnip.ch/2022/10/11/der-andere-amerikanische-ueberwachungsriese-ueber-den-niemand-spricht/

#FogReveal « A #DataBroker has been selling raw #location #data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, @EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace. » 📍 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police

#NoTechForICE": #DataBroker #LexisNexis Sued for Helping ICE Target #Immigrant Communities

#tech #humanrights #digitalprivacy

#DemocracyNow

A coalition of #immigrantrights organizations have sued the data broker LexisNexis for collecting detailed personal information on millions of people and the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d90DO5v8JmA

🎯📽️🍦Candid Camera: Ice Cream in Exchange for Your Data – #Threema
https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/icecream

Une magnifique expérience sociale de comment fonctionne l'économie des données aujourd'hui.
Ça me surprend (tristement) chaque fois quand je vois ce que les personnes refusent dans la vie "physique" mais l'acceptent sans broncher en ligne "car c'est si simple/confortable/ludique/etc."
#privacy #vieprivée #bigdata #databroker

@skariko I volenterosi #databroker del Male (semicit)