Data brokers won’t be banned from selling your personal data without good reason <div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Data brokers may be banned from selling your <a href="
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https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/13/massive-data-leak-national-public-data/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">for every person in the US, UK, and Canada[/url].</p>
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Update: With <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-under-trump-60-minutes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the CFPB being neutered[/url] by the Trump administration, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">plans for this protection have been killed[/url]. Original post follows …</p>
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Data brokers won’t be banned from selling your personal data without good reason
