Talk:Data broker

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Too US-centric, perhaps? Or are those figures worldwide averages salaries? It's kind of confusing... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.5.137.30 (talk) 00:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Most data brokers seem to be in the US; most information on them seems to be American, too. If you have anything more global please add it. The data is however often gathered indiscriminately, so the people that data brokers have data on are often not American; this is deducable from the fact that 10% of the world's population is roughly double the population of the US.HLHJ (talk) 18:15, 4 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjpf (talk • contribs) 01:03, 25 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Information services. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 3#Information services until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 09:54, 3 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Related to the above, after doing a lot of work on sorting out links to various related articles (or none), I have found that the near-earliest version of this article tried to describe a range of information services completely unrelated to the narrow definition now represented. In addition, the Fiction section (added quite early on) surely no longer applies, and it's uncited. I have to take a break from this now, but I am thinking that perhaps this article needs a qualifier ("personal data"?), and a separate DAB page for Information broker. The librarian-type of information broker is covered in Information consultant and Information professional. I'm not sure about the fictional type because I don't know enough about their various activities (just hacker, perhaps?). What a mess. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 08:01, 8 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

State and non-state intelligence services and agents are information brokers. State intelligence agencies meet the definition of intelligence or information brokers in that they collect information, process and disseminate it to their end customers and partners. As reported by The Intercept

“…intelligence officials moved to label WikiLeaks an “information broker,” which they distinguished from journalism and publishing. …the officials also pushed to apply the same designation to Intercept co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a related but failed effort to strip them of First Amendment protections in the wake of the NSA leaks. The Obama White House rejected that effort as it related to all three, Yahoo reported, but under Trump, officials successfully applied the “non-state hostile intelligence service” label to WikiLeaks.”

72.238.86.168 (talk) 23:18, 6 October 2021 (UTC)Reply