You probably already know what sort of intrusive information about you is up for sale — even if you’d rather not think about it. Your age, your phone number and where you live. What you bought for lunch yesterday, where you went afterwards and who you stood next to. How hard you press the brakes in your car. What billboard you walked past and whether you ever bought the item advertised there. ln the online data brokerage market all of that is up for grabs — sliced, diced and packaged for purchase.
你大概已經知道,一些涉及你隱私的個人信息正在被出售——即使你寧愿不去想這件事。你的年齡幾何、電話號碼多少、家住哪里。你昨天午飯吃了什么、之后去了哪里、誰站在你身旁。你踩剎車的力度。你走過哪塊廣告牌,是否購買過上面推銷的商品。這一切信息在網絡數據中介市場上都能找到——被切割成不同大小和形狀、包裝好,等待買家。