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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

By Evan Greer

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've been fortunate enough to be offered those multiple times as well. I froze my credit with the big three agencies after the third or fourth breach. Recently learned there's apparently a fourth agency now? Cool. And there's hundreds of data broker sites...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

same here except i didn't know that there was a 4th; what's it called?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Apparently its called "Innovis". I tried to find a few articles but they all read like press releases or AI slop.

There is a blurb on Wikipedia fortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#Consumer_reporting_agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovis