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Data broker

A data broker is an individual or company that specializes in collecting personal data (such as income, ethnicity, political beliefs, or geolocation data) or data about people, mostly from public records but sometimes sourced privately, and selling or licensing such information to third parties for a variety of uses. Sources, usually Internet-based since…

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Data broker

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Edges134
Triples129
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Fiction · 27
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related to In the United States · 26
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related to overview · 14
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related to Criticisms, consumer rights and breaches · 12
Data broker → Collection, Consumer Data, Data, Data Broker Industry, It, Marketing Purposes, Review, Sale, Their, Today, United States Senate Committee, Use
related to Privacy issues and regulation · 11
Data broker → European Union, Explicit, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, In, Information, The, There, Under GDPR, United States, US
related to Services · 11
Data broker → Brokers, Clients, Federal Trade Commission, Gartner, IBs, Information, Internet, It, Their, They, US
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Data broker → individual or company that specializes in collecting personal data

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Data brokeris aindividual or company that specializes in collecting personal data0.90text
the development of the Internetinstance oftechnological developments0.80text
increasing computer processing powerinstance oftechnological developments0.80text
and declining costs of data storage made it much easier for companies to collectinstance oftechnological developments0.80text
analyzeinstance oftechnological developments0.80text
storeinstance oftechnological developments0.80text
transfer large amounts of data about individualsinstance oftechnological developments0.80text
product registrationsinstance ofranging from the daily communications of an individual to more specialized data0.80text
patentsinstance ofranging from the daily communications of an individual to more specialized data0.80text
copyright datainstance ofranging from the daily communications of an individual to more specialized data0.80text
mostly from publicly available sourcesinstance ofranging from the daily communications of an individual to more specialized data0.80text
usually obtained from online databasesinstance ofranging from the daily communications of an individual to more specialized data0.80text

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