Spying’s New Frontier: Private Firm Collects Data on ‘Every American Adult’

‘The fight for internet privacy has focused much of its attention on government surveillance, but mass data collection is done by private companies as well—and one such firm has “centralized and weaponized” all that information for its customers, Bloomberg reports on Friday.
In fact, it has already built a profile on “every American adult,” Bloomberg writes.
While “professional snoops” have trawled through public and nonpublic records databases to amass information on people for more than a decade, Bloomberg’s David Gauvey Herbert highlights the company that has turned it into a powerful new industry for private investigators, government agencies, debt collectors, and other customers:’
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