Sentence examples for by a data broker from inspiring English sources

Someone who is categorised by a data broker as a "motorcycle enthusiast" might find his rates for medical or accident insurance rise.

The FTC wants Congress to pass a law that would "provide consumers with access to information about them held by a data broker".

"Even a knowledgeable consumer lacks the tools to exercise any control over his or her data held by a data broker," she said.

Additionally, she said, "information collected by the government, such as real estate sales and criminal records can make it into a data broker's collection".

Confidentiality and intellectual property protection in such a competitive phase are ensured by an "honest data broker" data management system.

Mr. Vladeck of the F.T.C. offered one possibility he worried about: a hypothetical consumer who buys a deep-fat fryer online may get typecast by data broker systems as a health risk, and then is passed over for marketing pitches for insurance or other services.

He said he was particularly troubled by data broker programs that categorize individual consumers as desirable or undesirable sales prospects, often without their knowledge and consent, a practice that he said raised privacy concerns.

MedPoint is a service offered by another for-profit medical data broker, OptumInsight, a subsidiary of insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, which also has voluminous files on people's healthcare.

The Seattle resident had realised that many people were unaware their personal information was being traded by big data brokers, including giants like Acxiom and Epsilon, without them ever seeing a penny.

They can also install company software that blocks Web tracking by 200 data brokers, advertising networks and ad trading platforms.

March 29: Facebook says it will close down a 2013 feature called Partner Categories — ending the background linking of its user data holdings with third party data held by major data brokers.