Tag: data brokers

• Chinese Hacking Is Alarming. So Are Data Brokers.

  12 February 2020

  Written by Charlie Warzel on New York Times.

  “Using the personal data of millions of Americans against their will is certainly alarming. But what’s the difference between the Chinese government stealing all that information and a data broker amassing it legally without user consent and selling it on the open market?”

  Via Aral.

  Read ‘Chinese Hacking Is Alarming. So Are Data Brokers.’ on the New York Times site.

  Tagged with: data brokers, security, privacy.

• Dangerous data and understanding privilege

  6 March 2019

  The best bookmarks I saved in Week 10, 2019.

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