{"id":5119,"date":"2022-03-23T13:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/where-does-your-info-go-us-lawsuit-gives-peek-into-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:37:06","slug":"where-does-your-info-go-us-lawsuit-gives-peek-into-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/where-does-your-info-go-us-lawsuit-gives-peek-into-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does your info go? US lawsuit gives peek into shadowy world of data brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data brokers collect our personal data and sell it on \u2013 but a new case shows just how easily people\u2019s security can be breached<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of ways your personal data could end up in the hands of entities you\u2019ve never directly given it to. One of them is through the data-broker industry: a complex network of companies that profits off the sale of data such as your location and your purchases, as well as biographical and demographic information.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new lawsuit is giving consumers an unprecedented peek into this opaque world, and illuminating just how easily a data broker can lose control of the user information it collects.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/23\/data-brokers-lawsuit-security-transparency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b1e79300c38208d9b8f8b33474d93c84fcb0c570\/0_6_5589_3356\/master\/5589.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b38e7c1ee7d00ea20552a388e6b5d80c\" title=\"Where does your info go? US lawsuit gives peek into shadowy world of data brokers\" \/>Data brokers collect our personal data and sell it on \u2013 but a new case shows just how easily people\u2019s security can be breached<br \/>\nThere are a number of ways your personal data could end up in the hands of entities you\u2019ve never directly given it to. One of them is through the data-broker industry: a complex network of companies that profits off the sale of data such as your location and your purchases, as well as biographical and demographic information.<br \/>\nNow, a new lawsuit is giving consumers an unprecedented peek into this opaque world, and illuminating just how easily a data broker can lose control of the user information it collects. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data brokers collect our personal data and sell it on \u2013 but a new case shows just how easily people\u2019s security can be breached There are a number of ways your personal data could end up in the hands of entities you\u2019ve never directly given it to. One of them is through the data-broker industry: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/where-does-your-info-go-us-lawsuit-gives-peek-into-shadowy-world-of-data-brokers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where does your info go? US lawsuit gives peek into shadowy world of data brokers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5120,"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\/5119"}],"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=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}