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CalMatters: Who’s buying your personal data: Disney, GM, your insurer and bank. Here’s what they get

EPIC · September 16, 2026 · US Federal · Privacy Law

“To build their databases, data brokers broadly rely on three types of data, according to Justin Sherman, a scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center who formerly ran a research program on data brokers at Duke University.” “Inferences are the ways a data point might lead a broker to determine something else about a person, … Continued

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