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data brokers
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Asset Search Blog
Private Investigators: An Asset Search Via Data Brokers Like IDI,Inc.
By Fred Abrams
[caption id="attachment_16052" align="alignnone" width="640"] This 11th post in my "Private Investigators" series focuses on how private investigators may use data brokers to search for your assets & other personal information.[/caption] The…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Data brokers settle with FTC for selling consumers’ information to scammers
SiteSearch, John Ayers, LeapLab and Leads Company (the defendants) settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for “knowingly provid[ing] scammers with hundreds of thousands of consumers’ sensitive personal information.” SiteSearch…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FTC Settlement Reinforces Lessons for Data Broker Industry
By HL Chronicle of Data Protection
The FTC has brought a number of actions over the years against companies that shared or failed to protect consumer information in violation of privacy policy promises or transferred data…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
FTC Warns Consumers That Personal Financial Data May Be At Risk Through Brokering
If the friend of a friend is my friend, and the enemy of a friend is my enemy, then is the seller of data to a scammer also a scammer?…
Of Digital Interest
Data Broker’s Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Could Reshape Future of Data Privacy Litigation
In a case that could shape the future of data privacy litigation, the Supreme Court recently agreed to review the decision by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit under…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Driverless Cars and Surveying, Fracking “Study,” Trends in Retail
How much do you know about data brokers? Do you even know what they are? Over on LXBN, Zosha has a piece on these interesting—to put it kindly—companies. Also, Craig…
Asset Search Blog
Data Brokers Searching For Your Assets, Bank Accounts & Other Personal Information?
By Fred Abrams
[embed width=640 height=500]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5OsQsB7Hg4&feature=youtu.be[/embed] As the Federal Trade Commission, ("FTC"), video depicted above reveals, data brokers (a.k.a. “information brokers”) and some other private sector businesses sell your highly personal information. The video…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FTC Complaint Offers Lessons for Data Broker Industry
By HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Two weeks ago, the FTC filed a district court complaint in Arizona against an operation that included three corporations and one individual. While touted as a case against data brokers…
Inside Privacy
IAPP Privacy Academy: “Data Brokers Demystified”
The International Association of Privacy Professionals hosted its annual Privacy Academy, at which one panel, “Data Brokers Demystified,” specifically focused on regulation of the data-broker industry. The panelists included Janis…
AdLaw By Request®
FTC Focuses on Data Brokers at Big Data Workshop
The Federal Trade Commission held a workshop on September 15, entitled "Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?" where FTC Commissioner Julie Brill emphasized the push to place more…