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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How a little-known tool is sweeping the real estate industry by giving instant access to vast amounts of homebuyer data (therecord.media)

submitted 1 month ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its just a people-searching tool similar to Spokeo or Intelius or one of hundreds of others. Nothing new.

Some might be shocked to see what kind of info you could find. Other more knowledgeable people know this is a thing that has existed for a long long time.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, and almost all billion-dollar tech companies are simply taking something that already existed, slapping a new UI on it, and marketing it to a specific group of people.