How data brokers get your information, even if you’re careful
THE SO WHAT
The real privacy leak isn’t your browsing hygiene—it’s the shadow economy stitching together public records, purchase histories, and third-party data into a persistent identity graph. If your product touches consumer data at all, assume your users’ profiles are already enriched elsewhere and design consent, data minimization, and deletion flows with that reality in mind.
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