Victory! California’s new data broker law will hold data brokers accountable and give us needed control over our data by making it easier to exercise our privacy rights.
"The biggest source of conflict was an amendment ... that would prohibit #databrokers from selling consumer data to #lawenforcement and would require a warrant to access Americans’ information... National #security hawks in #Congress and local law enforcement groups joined forces to kill the amendment, with the National Sheriffs’ Association claiming it would “kneecap law enforcement” in a letter to Congress..."
The top U.S. agency for consumer financial protection will announce plans at the White House on Tuesday to regulate companies that track and sell people's personal data, part of the Biden administration's widening scrutiny of that industry's privacy practices, officials said.
Zoom Video and Zoom Info are TWO DIFFERENT companies. Sorry everyone.
Still not a bad idea to get out of their database however.
This is Zoom's privacy policy. It is an amazing piece of legal engineering granting them the rights to buy, sell, and gather just about any data about business users they want -- including listing you in a Business or Professional Profile (the "directory"):
<https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-policy>
This is their form to opt-out of all tracking in their database which they use to sell your information to 3rd parties. Somewhat ironically, this page won't work unless you turn-off Privacy Badger and Ghostery web browser plug-ins:
<https://www.zoominfo.com/privacy-center/update/remove>
If you use Zoom at work through a business account and don't wish to be listed, consider opting out. They are also collecting information from around the Web outside of Zoom apparently to help build out your profile.
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California’s newest law will make it easier to delete personal online data
The #California Privacy Protection Agency will create a way for people to ask data brokers to delete their personal data or forbid them to sell or share it
By August 2026, #databrokers will have to check for and honor new requests every 45 days. After removing the data, brokers can still gather data but will have to delete it at the same 45-day interval
#AdTargeting#Privacy#DataProtection#DataBrokers#Surveillance: "If advertisers want to reach older people, they should place their copy next to the type of content that demographic usually consumes, in the places older people frequent or based on the topics they are supposedly interested in, rather than assuming the right to identify them personally based on what they do in their private lives. Trading in such data, whether by offering or acquiring it, must be banned, and the managers of companies that do so should face criminal liability.
There is no other way. There can be no half measures. How on earth did we reach the point where a third party — or a government — can can buy information about where I go and what I do by tracking my telephone?
In short, there is no such thing as “good” or “acceptable” personal data trafficking; it is always a violation of one of our most basic human rights. It is essential to safeguard that right, even if it means economic ruin for a few giant corporations. Advertising must be put back in its place, and surveillance capitalism brought under control."
Truly the darkest pattern. #OneTrust is such a shady organization. I went to check the cookie settings on a site I was visiting, and it LOOKED like the toggles were set to off, but in reality, they were still active. Totally gross and misleading behavior!
Another data broker is telling me that they have a „legitimate interest“ in scraping and selling my data because they need to for their business. 🙄 That is not enough.
When someone claims legitimate interest, they have to show that your rights and freedoms do not outweigh their interests. „We want to because money!“ does not quite do that!
🕵️♂️ Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills | @theverge
「 Data brokers appear to be wading into the fight, too. Relx, the United Kingdom-based parent company of data analytics firm LexisNexis, hired the lobbying firm Venable earlier this year as the amendment was being debated in the House, Politico’s Influence newsletter reported 」
I just filed a complaint against the Austrian subsidiary of a credit rating agency for allegedly violating my GDPR-access-rights. Other than a copy of the (extensive) data they have on me, they have provided almost no additional information on its processing. This makes it virtually impossible for me to exercise my data subject rights and therefore contradicts the GDPR‘s principles. Now, the data protection authority will have a say.
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#BigData#DataBrokers
Me: „I request full access according to Article 15 GDPR.“
Data Broker: „We do not have any of your personal data!“
Me: „Here‘s a screenshot of my personal data on your website. Also, I‘m insisting on my access rights.“
Data Broker: „Yes, well, we can delete that if you like.“
Me: 🤦♂️
It‘s on! I just filed a complaint against the Austrian subsidiary of a German data broker.
My first claim is that they have violated my right to information by, well, not providing any when they began scraping and selling my personal data, thereby effectively depriving me of my other data subject rights.
My second claim is that they have also violated my right to data protection by processing my personal data unlawfully and intransparently.
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#DataBrokers#BigData
A big recruiting platform just answered my demand for access to my personal data (which was presumably given to them by a data broker) by sending me a screenshot of the data broker‘s job ads with no further explanation.
Do they want me to apply?!? I don‘t think the data broker would hire me though. They already know me and I‘m quite sure they do not like me very much. 😆
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#DataBrokers#BigData#EveryDayIsPrivacyDay
#EU#Germany#DataProtection#DataLeaks#Privacy#DataBrokers: "The document lists more than 60 names and is publicly available on the site of a data broker. Most of those names are said to belong to German citizens. Their date of birth, passport number and expiration date is also listed. Such data is considered particularly sensitive because it can be used for identity theft. Selling and publishing it online is a disaster from a data protection perspective.
The list was uploaded to the site of a data broker in the EU, that allows others to buy or sell data. We are not naming the site here because the list is still online. The document listing more than 60 names is apparently a free sample. Interested parties can use such samples to get an impression of the data – before buying more of it. The data broker makes money from each sale: according to its own information, it keeps part of the sales price as a fee.
netzpolitik.org was able to identify several people on the list. They live in Bavaria or Lower Saxony and confirm that their data and ID numbers are genuine. Some were shocked to learn their data was public. One person tells us on the phone: „Data protection, you often hear about it. But it’s a different feeling when you see your own data openly on the Internet.“"
Delete your data from data brokers. (github.com)
An opt-out list of links that help you delete your data from data brokers.
US watchdog to announce plans to regulate 'surveillance industry' (www.reuters.com)
The top U.S. agency for consumer financial protection will announce plans at the White House on Tuesday to regulate companies that track and sell people's personal data, part of the Biden administration's widening scrutiny of that industry's privacy practices, officials said.