
Data Brokers and National Security
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Components of the Data Broker Industry
Any time you are looking up a product on one web site, and then on several other web sites you're getting advertisements for this tis pro that there's typically a data broker involved in some part of that process. If anyone has ever gogled themselves gogled some one they know, those are also a kind of data broker where they will go and scrape government records,. tax filings, property records, voting records, and aggregate that altogether in a searchabe form at on line. And so that's another example of a data day interaction some people might have with a data broker. So the industry is enormous. Its billions and billions of dollars. It's a global industry. There
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