*It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel* /A new report exposes the privacy and national security concerns created by data brokers. US senators tell MIT Technology Review the industry needs to be regulated. / By Tate Ryan-Mosley November 6, 2023 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 <https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-data-on-us-...>, 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. [...] continua qui: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/06/1083002/sensitive-data-about-us-...