Jason Morris and Ed Lavandera from CNN report in their article ”Why big companies buy, sell your
data“
that the data brokerage industry is now a $200 billion-a-year industry and growing.
Companies like Acxiom, Corelogic or Datalogix have, on average, 1,500 data points per person of
extremely detailed information about every single US household.
Michael Gregg´s article on Huffington Post, ”How Data Brokers Threaten Consumer Privacy“
,
takes it even further and gives some contemptible examples of how the data brokerage industry is
gathering, cross-referencing and storing that data in massive databases - available for everyone!