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Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number

They’d also have to ask for consent before selling your info.

During a Monday press call, CFPB director Rohit Chopra referenced the massive National Public Data breach earlier this year that leaked more than 200 million Social Security numbers that were offered for sale on the dark web. Data brokers would be required to get explicit permission to sell a consumer’s sensitive personal or financial information. During the Monday press call, a CFPB spokesperson declined to comment on “what a future administration may do” but pointed to “broad bipartisan recognition that data brokers pose real dangers both to Americans’ privacy and to national security.” But some government agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI also rely on data brokers to get around surveillance restrictions.

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