data brokers

California's data brokers must start processing DROP deletion requests on August 1, 2026. Here's what that deadline does and doesn't mean for your data.

DELETE Act California how to file: the SB 362 mechanism, who it covers, the 400-broker gap it misses, and how to submit a request that works.

Connected cars log your location, driving behavior, voice, and contacts, and automakers sell some of it. Here is what your car collects and what to do.

Pharmacy chains sell prescription data to drug companies, insurers, and brokers. What 1mg, PharmEasy, and your chemist know about you, and where it goes.

Before your premium is set, insurers may have bought your pharmacy records, location history, and searches. Here's how pre-application profiling works.

23andMe went bankrupt in 2025 with 15 million genetic profiles as its top asset. A genetic privacy guide: what's collected, who owns it, how to delete it.

Your prescriptions, insurance claims, and hospital visits are bought and sold by health data brokers. Here's how the industry works and what you can do.

A $200 billion industry trades your personal data every day. See the data broker economy: who collects it, who buys it, and what it sells for.

Data brokers run inference engines that predict your health, politics, and finances from your behavior. Here's how the profiling machinery works.

EU data brokers operate under GDPR — which means you have enforceable deletion rights, not voluntary opt-outs. Here's how to use them.

Spokeo, BeenVerified, Whitepages, and 200+ sites list your address, phone, and relatives. Here's how to remove yourself, and why you'll keep doing it.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and BeenVerified list your income estimate, relatives' addresses, and 20 years of past homes. Here's how to remove yourself from each.

JustDial lists your number. Truecaller has your address. Here's how to remove your data from 200+ Indian and global sites, and why it keeps coming back.

Free Android apps fund themselves by selling your location, contacts, and IMEI to data brokers. Here's how it works, and which app categories are worst.

You never installed Truecaller, but your name and number are in its database. Here's how that happened, what they hold, and what the opt-out really does.

Scam callers address you by name, know your bank, and sound completely legitimate. Here's the exact data trail that makes this possible in India.

How data brokers find your information: the public records, app SDKs, and breach data they collect, plus what GDPR, CCPA, and DPDPA let you do about it.