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Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List Symbols| Meanings ---|--- 💐| crucial ☠| high priority 🎫| requires driver’s license cross out your ID ! 📞| must pick up a gasp! phone 💰| site charges money for access or removal whaaaat? This list, also known as BADBOOL, was started in September 2017 and was most...
My Journey to the Center of America’s Political Spam Text Hell
I’ve gotten nearly 2,000 campaign fundraising texts that were meant for someone else. I tried to find out why—and uncovered a labyrinth of politicians, data brokers, and shady tactics...
Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform
Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports , evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: The new Northeastern study shows, for the first time, data flowing among the vehicles, the vehicle apps you download when you buy your car, and third-party...
25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared inLawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance--such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders--to mass surveillance techniques--suc...
ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records
Through data brokers, ICE is buying the information you provided to open a credit card...
Californians can tell data brokers to DROP their information
California has launched the Delete Request and Opt‑out Platform DROP, a state‑run portal that lets residents send deletion and opt‑out requests to all registered data brokers in one place. DROP was created under California’s Delete Act, which forces data brokers to register with the California...
Let My Data Go: Data Brokers' Compliance with Opt-Out and Deletion Requests
Data brokers are a largely American phenomenon. They collect vast amounts of personal information about most adult U.S. consumers, mainly without the latter's knowledge or consent. Accumulated data can be sold to anyone, including employers, landlords, insurance agencies, banks, governments local...
Company bragged phone mics could listen to conversations. They couldn’t.
A media company and two of its marketing partners have been fined for selling a service which, they said, listened in to people's conversations through their phones. Actually they did nothing of the sort. Most people have worried at some point that their phone has been listening to them through t...
Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data...
Your extensions leak clues about you, so we made sure Browser Guard doesn’t
Did you know you can be profiled based on the browser extensions you use? Advertisers can detect which extensions are installed and use that to build a picture of the kind of user you are. For instance, do you pride yourself on being a good online shopper who never pays full price? Maybe you use ...
How Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise...
Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns
A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care...
Your Digital Footprint Can Lead Right to Your Front Door
You lock your doors at night. You avoid sketchy phone calls. You're careful about what you post on social media. But what about the information about you that's already out there—without your permission? Your name. Home address. Phone number. Past jobs. Family members. Old usernames. It's all sti...
Sling TV turned privacy into a game you weren’t meant to win
Streaming service Sling TV has settled with the California Attorney General over allegations that it blocked users from exercising their privacy rights. The company will pay $530,000 after being accused of making it difficult for customers to opt out of its data collection practices. The Californ...
How scammers use your data to create personalized tricks that work
Think of your digital footprint as your online shadow—the trail you leave behind whenever you browse, post, shop, or even appear in someone’s contact list. It’s your likes, reviews, comments, and all the little traces you didn’t mean to share. Together, they paint a picture of you—one that friend...
Roku accused of selling children’s data to advertisers and brokers
The state of Florida has accused Roku, which powers many smart TVs and streaming devices, of selling children's data to third parties without their consent. According to the Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, Roku collected viewing habits, voice recordings, and precise geolocation from kids...
A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants
From data-removal services to threat monitoring, the Public Service Alliance says its new marketplace will help public servants defend themselves in an era of data brokers and political violence...
National Public Data returns after massive Social Security Number leak
Remember that data broker nobody had ever heard of, but managed to leak a database which contained the data of some 2.9 billion people? It's back, and this time with a search function. National Public Data suffered an alleged breach in 2024 against a data base that, it turned out, carried 272...
Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google
After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls...