Privacy
Data broker
In Turkish: Veri simsarı
A company that collects personal data from many sources, builds profiles and sells or shares them with others.
Data brokers gather information from public records, apps, websites, purchases and other brokers. They join the pieces into a profile that may include your contact details, address history, interests and more, and sell it to advertisers, marketers and sometimes people-search sites.
You usually did not deal with them directly, which is why you rarely know they hold your data. Many let you ask for removal, but each has its own process and your data can reappear, so it is an ongoing task.
What to do
- Search your name and phone number to see which sites list you.
- Send removal requests to the sites that hold your data and keep a record.
- Use a separate email address for sign-ups to limit what gets linked together.