Data brokers know everything, everywhere, just not all at once. They harvest bits of your personal data over time from endless sources—often in secrecy. Certain technologies like the Global Privacy Control (GPC) offered through DuckDuckGo or Privacy Badger can help combat this data collection and sharing by offering automated opt-outs. But do you envision any future technology that can further enable users to protect themselves from surveillance capitalism and promote data rights? The California legislature is designing a data broker opt-out database to be released in 2026 but I’m curious if future technology might also mitigate this problem from a new angle?
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Data brokers know everything, everywhere, just not all at once. They harvest bits of your personal data over time from endless sources—often in secrecy. Certain technologies like the Global Privacy Control (GPC) offered through DuckDuckGo or Privacy Badger can help combat this data collection and sharing by offering automated opt-outs. But do you envision any future technology that can further enable users to protect themselves from surveillance capitalism and promote data rights? The California legislature is designing a data broker opt-out database to be released in 2026 but I’m curious if future technology might also mitigate this problem from a new angle?
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Data brokers know everything, everywhere, just not all at once. They harvest bits of your personal data over time from endless sources—often in secrecy. Certain technologies like the Global Privacy Control (GPC) offered through DuckDuckGo or Privacy Badger can help combat this data collection and sharing by offering automated opt-outs. But do you envision any future technology that can further enable users to protect themselves from surveillance capitalism and promote data rights? The California legislature is designing a data broker opt-out database to be released in 2026 but I’m curious if future technology might also mitigate this problem from a new angle?
Data brokers know everything, everywhere, just not all at once. They harvest bits of your personal data over time from endless sources—often in secrecy. Certain technologies like the Global Privacy Control (GPC) offered through DuckDuckGo or Privacy Badger can help combat this data collection and sharing by offering automated opt-outs. But do you envision any future technology that can further enable users to protect themselves from surveillance capitalism and promote data rights? The California legislature is designing a data broker opt-out database to be released in 2026 but I’m curious if future technology might also mitigate this problem from a new angle?