Your name, address and secrets are being sold for pennies
Great post this morning from Kim Komando:
Data brokers are companies you never signed up with, quietly buying, packaging and selling your name, address, income, health and location to anyone with a credit card.
The big ones keep thousands of facts on you. They buy a record for about a twentieth of a cent and resell it for 50 cents and up.
You can opt out for free, but your record crawls back in months. Here’s the fix that actually sticks.
Link to article: Your name, address and secrets are being sold for pennies - Komando.com
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I wonder if this service conflicts or interferes with something like Norton Privacy Monitor, which does (essentially) the same thing.