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Data Brokers, the Mysterious and Uncontrolled Global Industry that Sells Your Data to the Highest Bidder (Also to Ice)

Summary by El Periódico
Acxiom, Experian, Equifax, CoreLogic, Epsilon and LexisNexis. You probably don’t know anything about these companies, but they know almost everything about you. It’s about the biggest data brokers in the world, millionaire firms whose business is based on tracking the footprint you leave on the internet to collect your personal data and sell it to third parties. Your privacy, auctioned to the highest bidder. An opaque and widely deregulated indu…
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Acxiom, Experian, Equifax, CoreLogic, Epsilon and LexisNexis. You probably don’t know anything about these companies, but they know almost everything about you. It’s about the biggest data brokers in the world, millionaire firms whose business is based on tracking the footprint you leave on the internet to collect your personal data and sell it to third parties. Your privacy, auctioned to the highest bidder. An opaque and widely deregulated indu…

·Barcelona, Spain
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El Periódico broke the news in Barcelona, Spain on Saturday, January 31, 2026.
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