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It seems incredible that anyone can legally create a business which involves scraping your personal data from the web and then selling it, yet here we are.
Summary
There are literally hundreds of data brokers doing just this. They also buy data from app developers, who use innocuous-sounding terms like “sharing data with selected partners” in their privacy polices.
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Stories like this are part of why proactive security testing exists, finding the gap before someone else does is always cheaper than responding after the fact.
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