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Posted on February 13, 2023 at 02:45 CST by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 20.07 • 2023-02-13

LEGAL BRIEF

By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

You may not realize that you have a valuable asset, one that companies are willing to pay big bucks for.

Unfortunately (for you), to date those companies have paid the big bucks to someone else: $76 billion to Google in the last quarter of 2022, $31 billion to Amazon for advertising alone last year. Those companies (and others) are selling access to your personal information. There is nothing illegal about that — you willingly (although perhaps not purposely) provided them the information.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.07.0, 2023-02-13).
This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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