@evacide as long as people are blindly and happily using the services hoarding the data, data brokers will be around.
only the society can kill them, but society is lazy and not interested.
@utf_7 @evacide >> as long as people are blindly and happily using the services hoarding the data, data brokers will be around.
I can’t opt out of having my data collected and then sold to data brokers by credit bureaus and if you’re American, you can’t either.
And that’s just the example I can think of off the top of my head.
@JSAMcFarlane @utf_7 @evacide I do stuff like that and also pay a service that removes me from most data broker lists.
But my point is that you can’t stay out of data brokers’ databases by not using Instagram, or using VPNs, or whatever. Maybe you can stay off their lists by living off the grid in the woods and not even having a bank account. But maybe not even then.
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how do they get your data then when not using their services?
@utf_7 @JSAMcFarlane @evacide If you have a bank account, lines of credit, a mortgage, or pretty much anything where you interact with the financial system, the credit bureaus have your data.
Many other countries have their central banks or a government agency track creditworthiness. In the U.S. we have what amounts to a sanctioned cartel of private companies doing it.
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