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data brokers

data brokers is the plural of data broker.

Meaning of data broker

Noun

data broker (plural data brokers)

  1. An individual or company that specializes in collecting personal data, mostly from public records but sometimes sourced privately, and selling or licensing such information to third parties for a variety of uses, often including advertising or marketing.
    • In the United States, there’s not much we can do to find out which aspects of our personal lives are being bought and sold by data brokers. That’s not the case in much of the rest of the world, where there are vast data protections, entire agencies devoted to data privacy, and serious enforcement...2014 May 28, Adrienne LaFrance, “Why Can't Americans Find Out What Facebook Knows About Them?”, in The Atlantic

Questions about data brokers

What is data brokers the plural of?
Data brokers is the plural of data broker.

Words near data brokers in the dictionary

  1. data blocker
  2. data blockers
  3. data breach
  4. data breaches
  5. data broker
  6. data brokers
  7. data bus
  8. data buses
  9. data busses
  10. data cable
  11. data cables

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