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I'm going to go against the trend here and put on my evil hat. How do I buy this data? Who are these brokers? And how do I buy it?
Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631
I am a big fan of Kanary - https://www.kanary.com/ I’ve tried one rep, delete me and a few others. This service goes much wider to delete all public mentions and hidden ones in broker databases that are being sold. It has made a considerable difference for my data privacy IMO.
It's fascinating that I have to pay to get my data removed from datasets into which they got without my consent (well, my consent "is not worth much" IMHO) and somebody else gets paid to put my data into this dataset. So I need to pay to get something I never wanted in the first place.
I'm going to go against the trend here and put on my evil hat. How do I buy this data? Who are these brokers? And how do I buy it?
Making these connections is likely part of the value someone somewhere in this ecosystem provides. I doubt they do it for free or accept just anyone.
US-only. What if my EU data is found in US-based data brokers?
I ran my info through the scanner and it said it found hundreds of matches. I looked through them and exactly 0 of them were me. Trash.
I am a big fan of Kanary - https://www.kanary.com/ I’ve tried one rep, delete me and a few others. This service goes much wider to delete all public mentions and hidden ones in broker databases that are being sold. It has made a considerable difference for my data privacy IMO.
It's fascinating that I have to pay to get my data removed from datasets into which they got without my consent (well, my consent "is not worth much" IMHO) and somebody else gets paid to put my data into this dataset. So I need to pay to get something I never wanted in the first place.
Google offers something very similar for subscribers of Google One.