What is a Data Broker?
A Data Broker is a company or collection of companies collecting an array of personally identifiable information (PII) about consumers, including the following: Full name Phone number Email and physical addresses Age Gender Occupation and education history Social security number Financial and criminal background These companies collect this data to sell it, often utilizing other Data brokers and People Search Sites to spread and sell the information in large volumes to anyone wFew readersUnderstanding 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
