The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they’ve sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

By Evan Greer

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Yeah, I’ve been fortunate enough to be offered those multiple times as well. I froze my credit with the big three agencies after the third or fourth breach. Recently learned there’s apparently a fourth agency now? Cool. And there’s hundreds of data broker sites…

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      11 days ago

      same here except i didn’t know that there was a 4th; what’s it called?