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Following Markup investigation, Congress finds data brokers cost consumers tens of billions of dollars (themarkup.org)

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A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Opt out is Horseshit. Make it legally required to opt in or they cant collect data.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Believe it or not, its opt in when you click "I Agree", though it should be MUCH easier to opt out than it currently is.

States like California are helping to combat this, forcing companies to tell the state that they are collecting this data, and California providing an option for their citizens to do a one time massive opt out to all services. There are also services out there that you can pay and they will go out and continually try to keep your data from these data brokers.