For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about active-duty military members and veterans, including their names, home addresses, geolocation, net worth, and religion, and information about their children and health conditions.
In a unsettling
study published on Monday, researchers from Duke University
approached 12 data brokers in the US and asked what would be
necessary to buy this kind of information; they ultimately
purchased thousands of records about American service members,
finding that many brokers offered to sell the data with minimal
vetting and were willing to deal with buyers using email domains
based in both the US and Asia.
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