• What is a Data Broker?

  A data broker is a company that collects, combines, and shares personal information about people - often without interacting with them directly. These companies gather data from public records, online activity, apps, and business partnerships, then use or sell that information for purposes like advertising, background checks, recruiting, or analytics. Many people don’t realize how widely their personal information is collected and shared, which is why understanding data brokers is an importFew readers

• Understanding Non-Compliant Data Brokers: When Opt-Outs Are Ignored

  At Privacy Bee, our mission is to safeguard consumer privacy by removing personal information from data brokers, people-search websites, and marketing databases. Most data brokers cooperate with privacy requests and comply with relevant privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, there remains a group of data brokers that repeatedly refuse to honor opt-out requests, deliberately make the process excessively diffFew readers