It's difficult to tell just how much personal information companies have picked up about us from our online trails, our smartphone and app activity, and our credit card purchases. Sure, certain sites and apps offer ways for users to see their activity data on their platforms, but going to each one individually is not convenient, to say the least. Plus, there are many companies — so called "data brokers" — that specialize in collecting and piecing together personal data about people in the background, without broadly disclosing that fact. Now one US government official is proposing a sweeping new initiative that would let people see all the data that such companies have collected about them. Called "Reclaim Your Name," effort is still...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/26/4467298/reclaim-your-name-ftc-commissioner-wants-companies-to-reveal-what
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