Sentence examples for data has been sold from inspiring English sources
The citizen whose personal data has been sold for corporate gain.
Your search data has been sold to an advertising company.
The purloined data has been sold and resold, and even published on public websites for all to see -- and many to exploit for profit, guilty pleasure, or to advance their political or ideological agendas.
I might have eventually discovered this fact by keeping up on technology news, but it turns out there was no need: one day last year, my inbox started to fill up with Friendster marketing messages for the first time in years, and I realized that my long-forgotten decade-old profile data had been sold, without my knowledge or permission, to a company I'd never heard of in Asia.
Stolen financial data have been sold, alongside viruses and Trojans, at such online communities as Boa Factory, and now defunct sites Carderplanet and Darkprofits.
Facebook faces potential legal consequences and fines on multiple fronts for allowing Cambridge Analytica to get access to 50 millions users' data that had originally been gathered by an academic for research and then failing to notify users after Facebook discovered the data had been sold off to the political group.
It used to be that you could buy the OED, and generate only one blip of data ("a copy has been sold"), and you could retain the book forever.
Numis cut its price target on UBM from 780p to 766p following the sale news: While it is positive the vast majority of the data services division has been sold (not a given), the price is a little disappointing to the £200m we had hoped for.
The patent application has been sold to Butalco GmbH (Switzerland).
