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How Data Brokers Use Social Media and What You Can Do About It
Data brokers cross-reference social media profiles with public record data to create more complete identity profiles. Your public LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter profiles may be associated with your address and phone number in ways that were not apparent when you created them.
This guide explains how data brokers use social media data and how to limit their collection.
How Social Media Feeds Data Broker Profiles
Data brokers use publicly available social media data to verify and augment public record profiles. Your employer, education history, and publicly listed contact information from LinkedIn may be incorporated into broker profiles alongside your home address.
Many people share more information on social media than they realize, including home city, workplace, and family connections that can be cross-referenced with public records.
Review Social Privacy Settings + Remove Broker Profiles
The two-step approach: first review social media privacy settings to limit what is publicly visible, then address the broker profiles that have already cross-referenced your social data with public records.
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