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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/26/b4f4b8ebcc9c0934a23f4c0992385deb.jpg?quality=75997562Right now, meticulous details about your life are for sale on the internet. It can be details about your children, your yearly income, your medical conditions, hopes, fears, exercise habits, race, religion, sexuality — all this and more is available, sometimes for fractions of a cent. Companies called data brokers buy the info from companies […]