Data-brokers is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Massachusetts is poised to ban the sale of precise location data statewide, signaling a tighter privacy regime affecting data brokers and startups.
BBC Future debunks how modern cars quietly become data mines, quantifying large-scale connectivity, regulatory gaps, and rising privacy/legal action around car-derived data and insurance implications.
DoD confirms adversaries used commercial location data to track U.S. personnel, with a senator calling the adtech industry a national security threat, signaling elevated regulatory and compliance risk for data brokers and ad platforms.
The article argues that leaving red herrings about yourself online is generally ineffective against data brokers and OSINT, and it recommends threat modeling, compartmentalization, and opt-out hygiene instead.
GM will pay $12.75M to settle a California data privacy suit, stop selling driver data to data brokers for five years, and allow drivers to opt out of OnStar location data collection.
A BrowserStack user’s email was allegedly leaked via Apollo.io’s data-sharing network, highlighting third-party data handling and privacy/regulatory risk.
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