What does the report reveal?
How is the government obtaining this data?
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Are there laws preventing the government from obtaining CAI?
What are the ramifications of this information?
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What have we learned from this report?
How to protect your privacy with a removal service
While it is possible for you to go to each site and manually request your information be removed, you’d be doing this non-stop. Unfortunately, there is no regulation when it comes to these data brokers, and just because you remove your data from the web doesn’t mean the data brokers aren’t going to resell it again months from now.
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Kurt’s key takeaways
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