LC-014 / Privacy / Public ledger

Data brokerage.

Companies may buy and sell consumer information under patchwork privacy rules.

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In ordinary words.

Your personal details can be inventory.

In legal terms.

Certain data uses are restricted by sector-specific and state laws; no single blanket federal prohibition covers all brokerage.

Where it stops being legal.

This practice is not categorically legal. Applicable federal, state and local laws, disclosures, procedural protections and the specific facts can make particular conduct unlawful.

Legal authority / Start reading

FTC data broker report

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