Tag: Data Brokers
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DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers
For more than a decade, DuckDuckGo has rallied against Google’s extensive online tracking. Now the privacy-focused web search and browser …
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an …
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New California Delete Act Tightens Rules for Data Brokers
Companies with customers in California need to prepare for a new process for demanding deletion of personal …
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How CISOs Can Reduce the Danger of Using Data Brokers
Purchasing databases from data brokers can create a problem for enterprise security executives. While there are tools to scan the files for …
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FTC sues data broker for selling millions of people’s ‘precise’ location info
The Federal Trade Commission has accused data broker Kochava of trampling over people’s privacy by selling the “precise” whereabouts of …
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US FTC sued US data broker Kochava for selling sensitive and geolocation data
The U.S. FTC sued US data broker Kochava for selling sensitive and precise geolocation data collected from hundreds of millions of mobile …
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The Danger of Online Data Brokers
A few weeks ago, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver brought the dangers of online data brokers from out of the shadows and into the …
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Data Brokers Track Abortion Clinic Visits for Anyone to Buy
If the war in Ukraine and Russia’s still-unfolding atrocities there didn’t offer enough fodder for doomscrolling, this week supplied a new …
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Location Data from Muslim Prayer App Sold to Data Broker
A well-known Muslim prayer app has been recording and selling the location data of users, leading to fears this information will be abused. …
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Anatomy of a Breach: Criminal Data Brokers Hit Dave
Stolen data from Dave for sale on a cybercrime forum (Source: ZeroFox) The hack of mobile banking startup Dave appears to be just the …
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Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users’ Browsing History
On Tuesday, the Czech data protection authority announced an investigation into antivirus company Avast, which was harvesting the browsing …
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How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails
The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users’ email inboxes and sells …
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