*It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel*
/A new report exposes the privacy and national security concerns created
by data brokers. US senators tell MIT Technology Review the industry
needs to be regulated.
/
By Tate Ryan-Mosley
November 6, 2023
For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling
sensitive private data about active-duty military members and veterans,
including their names, home addresses, geolocation, net worth, and
religion, and information about their children and health conditions.
In a unsettling study published on Monday
<https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-data-on-us-military-personnel/>,
researchers from Duke University approached 12 data brokers in the US
and asked what would be necessary to buy this kind of information; they
ultimately purchased thousands of records about American service
members, finding that many brokers offered to sell the data with minimal
vetting and were willing to deal with buyers using email domains based
in both the US and Asia.
[...]
continua qui:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/06/1083002/sensitive-data-about-us-military-personnel-data-brokers/
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