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Companies called data brokers are lightly regulated, making the danger of doxxing — where contact information is made public to facilitate harassment — overwhelming. In November, a study revealed how easily foreign governments could use companies known as data brokers to purchase personal information about U.S. military personnel. In some cases researchers paid less than a quarter per record for information that included home addresses, cell phone numbers and sensitive health data. Congress reacted quickly; the House passed legislation this year that seeks to restrict the sale of "personally identifiable sensitive data" of American residents to North Korea, China, Russia…
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