At this very moment, data brokers could be silently collecting your private information and putting it up for sale. It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, right? But data brokers are real. In simple terms, data brokers are companies that collect personal information about people based on their online habits - including kids - and build profiles about them. Those profiles can be sold to other companies, which use that information to decide how to treat you.

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