<story><title>The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hash872</author><text>As someone who&amp;#x27;s interfaced with the data brokers professionally, I can tell you that the ultimate starting point for their dataset is usually a state voter registration database. A lot of states pretty openly sell their data, like from the DMV, but every data broker is starting by figuring out a way to get that voter registration data- some states just give it, in some states (like say Maryland) you have to at least pretend to be an election researcher, etc. I&amp;#x27;m sure for more restrictive states it gets passed around on the grey market.&lt;p&gt;But if you&amp;#x27;re anti-data broker (I certainly am!), it starts with regulating your own state</text></comment>
<story><title>The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>Is there a “opterouter” project that just spiders all these and opt outs?&lt;p&gt;Navigating the dark patterns of one site is a pain, much less 120+.&lt;p&gt;But seems like a good opportunity for 120 to script one path each.&lt;p&gt;Hard to do a service as I don’t want to enter my private info into another third party.</text></comment>