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The Little-Known Data Broker Industry Is Spending Big Bucks LobbyingCongress
Data brokers’ millions of dollars in lobbying spending in 2020 rivaled that of some Big Tech firms
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Alfred Ng is an enterprise reporter in Brooklyn covering privacy and surveillance. He’s interested in stories that highlight technology’s side effects and how they can be addressed.
Before The Markup, he was a senior reporter for CNET, covering cybersecurity and privacy, and a reporter for the New York Daily News, covering police and crime. His reporting demonstrated how technology’s claims to reduce crime were unfounded, both in neighborhoods and in schools using facial recognition.
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