Episode 12.9 - Data brokers and health care with Rob Shavell of Deleteme

The data broker market is worth half a trillion dollars and growing at a rate of 7.3 percent annually through 2033. That means they don’t care that you want your privacy. They are making too much money selling your personal information to care. That lack of concern doesn’t just affect an individual’s privacy. It threatens their security and that of nation states.There is a technology niche dedicated to fixing that problem: the personal data removal and online privacy market. The problem is it’s worth a 10th of the data broker market so it doesn’t have the political clout of data brokers. And nowhere is the problem bigger than the healthcare industry, according to Rob Shavell, CEO of Deleteme.This episode is sponsored by Haven, a free browser extension that protects you from phishing links and malicious sites before you ever click.