How did they get my data? I uncovered the hidden web of networks behind telemarketers
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After receiving dozens of unwanted calls from telemarketers, I started to investigate.
  • @[email protected]
    3•1 day ago

    If you have a phone number, thats how.

    If you don’t have a phone number, its much harder for then to get your info

  • mox
    47•2 days ago

    CoreLogic defended its practices as legal, saying it’s too difficult to verify consent or anonymise personal data.

    And this is what needs changing. It should not be legal for them to have it, nor for anyone to give it to them, in the first place.

    • @fluckx
      13•2 days ago

      If it’s too hard to protect, you shouldn’t have it in the first place.

      • mox
        10•2 days ago

        The unfortunately paradoxical thing about opt-out services is that using them requires giving out your details, and hoping that they aren’t (deliberately or accidentally) leaked.

  • @atrielienzEnglish
    8•2 days ago

    If you’ve ever signed up to win something (a car, a vacation, a pretty watch, free food for a year), you’ve given them your data and they just add that together with what they can scrape off the internet and sell it to anyone who wants it in a lot of cases.