A Guide to Data Removal Services: Should You Pay for Privacy?

You’re more popular than you realize, but that isn’t as good as it sounds. Some of your biggest fans are data brokers. 

Data broker companies find your personal information and sell it to eager buyers, from reputable American companies to foreign governments. Businesses are interested in you because they’d like to get better at marketing products and services to you. Foreign governments may want more insight into the collective American psyche, but they may also have nefarious reasons that they…