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S6, E256 - The Invisible Trade: How Data Brokers Profit from Your Life
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- Privacy Please
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- Sep 26, 2025
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Summary
Send us Fan Mail You click "agree," you swipe a loyalty card, you browse online – every digital breadcrumb you leave is being collected, but not just by the apps and websites you use. Welcome to the world of data brokers, a multi-billion-dollar, hidden industry that aggregates, analyzes, and profits from your most intimate personal information. In this special episode from Privacy Please, we pull back the curtain on this shadowy ecosystem. Discover: What a data broker is and how they differ f...