”Data Brokers’ Are Collecting and Selling Some Very Private Information About You’

Sara Morrison: > While the data brokers say the information is used to put people in very general profiles such as “sports enthusiast” or “avid traveler,” the World Privacy Forum found a list of rape victims for sale at one data broker (the link now goes to an “updating” page. Maybe it’s a coincidence! Or…

Sara Morrison:

> While the data brokers say the information is used to put people in very general profiles such as “sports enthusiast” or “avid traveler,” the World Privacy Forum found a list of rape victims for sale at one data broker (the link now goes to an “updating” page. Maybe it’s a coincidence! Or maybe MEDbase200 decided it would be best to take its services offline for a while until this all blows over).

Senator Rockefeller thinks this is maybe more worrisome than the NSA spying. I’d agree.

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