Boots that Stalk: How Data Brokers Can Affect the Ads You See Online
2018-11-08
by Dustin Moores “I don’t get it,” my wife said over the phone one blustery November afternoon, “why am I seeing ads for your boots on my work computer?” It was a great question, and the aspiring cyber-sleuth in me wanted nothing more than to find the answer. “Did youRead More →
Podcast 2 – What do data brokers do?
2018-11-01
CIPPIC intern Dustin Mores offers a tour of the different kinds of products offered by data brokers. He goes over each of the three main categories of products: (1) marketing products, (2) risk mitigation products, and (3) “people search” products. Theme music: “Cool It” by Nctrnm, licensed under CC BYRead More →
Podcast 1 – Introduction
2018-11-01
Welcome to CIPPIC’s Data Broker Project Podcasts. In this podcast, CIPPIC Director David Fewer describes our project – why we are studying data brokers, how changes to technology over the past decade have changed the industry, and how we look at data flows. We give a look ahead at whatRead More →
Welcome to CIPPIC’s website for the Data Brokers Project.
2018-11-01
The Data Brokers Project follows up on CIPPIC’s 2006 study of the Canadian Data Brokerage industry. Data brokers, companies “whose primary business involves the trading and analysis of personal information,” are intimately familiar with the personal information of Canadian consumers, but are poorly understood by many consumers themselves. This industryRead More →