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    CoreLogic defended its practices as legal, saying it’s too difficult to verify consent or anonymise personal data.

    And this is what needs changing. It should not be legal for them to have it, nor for anyone to give it to them, in the first place.

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        The unfortunately paradoxical thing about opt-out services is that using them requires giving out your details, and hoping that they aren’t (deliberately or accidentally) leaked.

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    If you’ve ever signed up to win something (a car, a vacation, a pretty watch, free food for a year), you’ve given them your data and they just add that together with what they can scrape off the internet and sell it to anyone who wants it in a lot of cases.