But confirming the source of the alleged data theft has proven inconclusive, such is the nature of the data broker industry, which gobbles up individuals’ personal data from disparate sources with little to no quality control.
But this alleged breach of a data broker appears to be an outlier, in part because some of the data appears genuine and some already verified.
The proliferation and commoditization of personal data across the data broker industry also makes it more challenging to identify the source of data leaks.
And even if this particular data breach remains unsolved, it shows once more that the data broker industry is out of control and poses real privacy issues to ordinary people.
We couldn’t definitively solve the mystery of this data breach, but there was enough there to detail our verification efforts.
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced its first industry-wide review of data security and privacy policies across the largest U.S. airlines.
Those airlines include Allegiant, Alaska, American, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, and United.
Wyden has raised alarms about the sharing and sale of sensitive U.S. consumer data to data brokers — companies that collect and resell people’s personal data, like precise location data, often derived from their phones and computers.
In recent months, Wyden has warned that data brokers sell access to Americans’ personal information, which can identify which websites they visit and the places they travel to.
In remarks, Wyden said: “Because consumers will often never know that their personal data was misused or sold to shady data brokers, effective privacy regulation cannot depend on consumer complaints to identify corporate abuses.”
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