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Data Broker Shadows
A company you never met may know where you slept.
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Data brokers buy, merge, and sell location, purchase, and behavioral profiles from many sources. The market is real. The open question is how much control or visibility people should be entitled to by default. It reveals a shadow industry most people only meet after a scandal. People can be tracked, profiled, and sold without a human relationship ever existing.