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It’s possible to buy data on thousands of military personnel, including information as personal as health issues and gambling habits, for less than $0.50 per person, according to research from Duke University published on Monday.
From a single broker, the researchers bought data on nearly 5,000 active-duty military employees, including their name, home and email addresses, political affiliation, gender, age, income, net worth, credit rating, whether they had children in their home, marital status, home value and religion, according to the report. The cost amounted to just $0.213 per military servicemember.
Not only was it cheap to buy the data, it was also easy, thanks to a lack of background checks or authentication, Duke’s researchers discovered. By using a .asia email address and servers located in Singapore, the academics also proved that brokers were happy to send potentially sensitive data on defense employees to foreign entities.
While the data trade is, for the most part, entirely legal, Sherman believes the laws around the industry need strengthening. “Some think of data brokers as only third-party companies, but it’s important to understand just how many first-party collectors of data, such as mobile apps on our phones, may turn around and sell data about us to data brokers,” Sherman added.
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