{"id":19071,"date":"2025-06-08T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/how-did-you-get-my-number-inside-the-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T13:37:18","slug":"how-did-you-get-my-number-inside-the-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/how-did-you-get-my-number-inside-the-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"How did you get my number? Inside the shadowy world of data brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When political spam landed in Priya Dev\u2019s inbox during the last election campaign, she decided to track down the source<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Priya Dev has a clue on how political spam ended up in her inbox during the 2025 federal election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Like many Australians, Dev endured an unwanted flood of Trumpet of Patriots text messages \u2013 Clive Palmer has admitted to sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/nsw\/clive-palmer-defends-spam-texts-no-different-to-howtovote-cards\/news-story\/52ee3791b6bfdc88e14d8d4556896b04\">17m of them<\/a>. But it was email spam from one of the major political parties that she thought she could do something about.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/how-did-you-get-my-number-inside-the-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d32d8f64e8a77a93e96fa716f457ce305b0dc0c1\/304_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=564a2d320bec0c68aca8acad9127bcbe\" title=\"How did you get my number? Inside the shadowy world of data brokers\" \/>When political spam landed in Priya Dev\u2019s inbox during the last election campaign, she decided to track down the source<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nPriya Dev has a clue on how political spam ended up in her inbox during the 2025 federal election campaign.<br \/>\nLike many Australians, Dev endured an unwanted flood of Trumpet of Patriots text messages \u2013 Clive Palmer has admitted to sending 17m of them. But it was email spam from one of the major political parties that she thought she could do something about.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When political spam landed in Priya Dev\u2019s inbox during the last election campaign, she decided to track down the source Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Priya Dev has a clue on how political spam ended up in her inbox during the 2025 federal election campaign. Like many Australians, Dev &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/how-did-you-get-my-number-inside-the-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How did you get my number? Inside the shadowy world of data brokers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}