privacy-matters

I think he means a CPA. Certified public accountant. They are the ones who actually write the report.

That is super messed up. That is not how a status board should work.

Yeah, this is a great idea. Apple and Google and Microsoft all have a vested interest in making this happen.

But the lady on Joe Rogan disagrees. I now take 25,000 IUs each day so I won’t get coronavirus.

Lol, that’s hilarious.

Checkout CircleBack which is a free tool that scrapes your email for contacts for you. Now look at their CEO. He also owns a data broker. I am sure he is selling the CircleBack data.

One of the companies you interacted with likely sold the data to them OR a browser plugin scraped the data from an email you sent to one of your contacts.

Sales teams need this data to reach the right roles with the right message. My friend was quoted $19k per year to access to the ZoomInfo database for his two person company. There is crazy money here. ZoomInfo has a $17B market cap last I looked.

If you send any sales person an email with your email signature there is a chance they are using ZoomInfo. That tool will scrape your email for your email signature and now they can sell your very accurate data.

You have no idea how sketchy these companies are.

ZoomInfo (public company) for example provides a free plugin for sales people which is scanning email for all the email signatures and then they sell all that data to their customers. Even crazier is they take data from their customer’s CRM systems.

DiscoverOrg is buying data from third parties without really knowing how they got the data.

There are a bunch of apps and browser plugins that read your emails or contacts and then those companies sell that data to third parties like these data brokers. I use very few browser plugins because of this threat.

If you have somehow acquired a list of contacts you can get a lot of these companies to purchase it with very few questions.