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A Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them (2018)

7 pointsby lwhsiaoabout 5 years ago

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d727363828about 5 years ago
This is the sort of thing you use to try and illustrate the need for additional privacy protections in a discussion. The sheer volume of names, and the effort required to interact with each, is obviously too overwhelming to reasonably expect a person to undertake. Surely, even if you're on the fence because you're in the camp that thinks we should be able to decide for ourselves whether or not to monetize our data, you can support legislation that gives people with a real need for digital privacy a way out. Off the top of my head I can imagine these services being used to assist in stalking an ex, going after a child I lost custody over, get the new phone number of someone I'm harassing, etc. Surely even laymen could at least understand situations like these and be persuaded that /some/ amount of digital privacy should be protected, maybe from there they could be made more open minded towards the more abstract but no less important forms of digital privacy.