December 18, 2013

2013-12-18T22:02:59-05:00

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A representative from the Federal Trade Commission, private industry officials, and privacy advocates testified on the impact to consumers the collection and marketing of personal information by the data broker industry. The Senate Commerce Committee had released a staff report that day on the practices of the industry showing that data brokers, effectively unregulated, were collecting a huge volume of detailed personal information including things such as medical, financial, and legal concerns that were categorized and sold.

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