Sentence examples for major data brokers from inspiring English sources

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV intensifies a probe into major data brokers, including Experian, the credit bureau.

And the Federal Trade Commission has been looking into the practices of about a dozen major data brokers.

If you want to start by requesting an opt-out from each of the major data brokers, this list is a good start.

Executives of two major data brokers acknowledged to a Senate panel yesterday that their companies did not tell consumers about security breaches that occurred well before recent incidents exposed more than 400,000 people to possible identity theft.

The company just announced that it will end a feature called Partner Categories, launched back in 2013 out of a partnership between Facebook and major data brokers.

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.

When customers walk into a car dealership in Boston, he said, what they look at is tracked from the moment they come in, and their contact information is used to sign them up for a newsletter and then sold to a major data broker.

April 2013 — Facebook launches Partner Categories: Further enriching the capabilities of its ad targeting platform by linking up with major data broker companies which hold aggregate pools of third party data, including information on people's offline purchases.

And Facebook has already made some changes ahead of GDPR coming into force (and likely to try to comply with the new standard) — announcing it's shutting down a partnership with major offline and online data brokers, for example.

That can happen directly, or through middlemen known as list brokers and data brokers.

In Finland, an industry of data brokers has sprung up.