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Re:The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal... by dominotw on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:05AM (#27302590)
> I can tell you that the ultimate starting point for their dataset is usually a state voter registration database.

Right on the money. I worked for a company that sold this data to whoever paid them .

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Re:The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal... by dominik-2020 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:47AM (#27303053)
This is only valid for the U.S. though.
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Re:The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal... by zzleeper on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:10PM (#27305395)
What would be the best way to access this data for research? I do academic research (mostly focusing on credit) and it might be quite useful to write a paper that cross references this with loan data for a paper with a political angle.
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