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Planning on keeping your privacy and start data broker removal / opt out by yourself ? We wrote an article on creating your own profile so you can start researching what data brokers might have your information. Data broker removal is effective if you target the data brokers that have your information instead of just sending a mass opt out request that supply your information to brokers that didnt have it. #privacy #databrokers #optout #pii #gdpr #removal https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/data-broker-removal-profile

Client-side scanning gets debated on rights. The offensive-security angle
mostly does not come up.

Send a target content that trips the detector, then let automated reporting do
what used to take a complaint and someone willing to act.

A framing attempt has to clear four gates: reach the target, land in scanner
scope, produce a match, survive whatever threshold or human review the design
imposes. Only the first is reachable by the person at risk.

Written up as an exposure problem, plus what the EU actually enacted in July. #privacy #ethics #cybersecurity #GDPR #EUrope #threatintel

https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/client-side-scanning-attack-surface

Open-source work has a measurement problem at its centre. The discipline is good at gathering and weak at pricing what it gathers. A finding arrives with a sense of confidence attached. That sense comes from how the work felt rather than from anything countable. The gap between the two is where wrong names come from. #privacy #OSINT #ethics https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/why-osint-findings-overstate-certainty

Data clean rooms, perfect for companies to keep using the phrase:"we never share personal data, and we never store a profile of you." The room is engineered to sit inside the identifiability gap: it recovers the precision that blurring gave away, then lets both parties carry on describing the output as though no personal data were involved. The commercial logic settles any doubt about which half matters. What an advertiser pays for is the ability to find, price and target a real person more accurately than before. A genuinely anonymous result, one that could never be acted on at the level of an individual, would not justify the infrastructure. Companies do not build clean rooms to process data that has stopped being about anyone. The precision is the product; the non-personal framing is the packaging. #privacy #GDPR #datacenters #cloud #Europe #USA #ethics https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/what-is-a-data-clean-room

The assumption of personal targeting leads to the wrong defensive instinct in the majority of attacks.

If you believe you were singled out, you go looking for a motive and a culprit. If you understand that you were surfaced you look at your own exposure instead.

Motivation × Opportunity × Friction (cost of action) are key factors in achieving goals. even with low motivation (opportunity is everywere
leaked credential databases are everywhere
password reuse is still common
automated tooling removes skill barriers
phishing kits are plug-and-play
AI lowers language barriers for scams ) actors can become offenders. #cybersecurity #threatintel #scam #ransomware #phishing #ethics #privacy https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/why-cybercrime-isnt-about-you

In Breugel's (Brussels think-tank)Feb 2026 issue a working paper: "Europeans should be allowed to trade personal data." arguing Europeans should control their personal data. The model they propose makes full privacy a subscription option platforms aren't even required to offer. #privacy #GDPR #EU #dataprivacy https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/privacy-as-a-luxury-eu-data-market

Analyzing an industry. What is more to see in the threat industry? Next to the loud ransomware market there are more sectors for supply and demand. #cybersecurity #privacy #ethics #ransomware #threatintel #business https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/the-silent-market

What is the profit in making sure you dont opt out? With updates after the study release of Electronic Privacy Information Center released Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes . #privacy #privacymatters #optout #databrokers #economics #business https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/why-data-brokers-make-opt-outs-hard

Social media impersonation is the use of a profile that presents itself as a real, existing person or organisation in order to borrow that identity’s standing with other people. The people who trust that account are the ones being attacked. #accountsecurity #impersonation #fakeaccount #cybersecurity #threatintel #privacy #osint https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/social-media-impersonation

Culture barely moves who falls for a lure. What changes by region is what an attacker can borrow to reach their target, and whether your controls were ever tested here.A cross-cultural experiment published in Computers & Security this July (Junger et al., N=2,143 across 12 countries) found cultural orientation, religiosity and country of origin have minimal effect on who gets phished. What predicts it: low self-control, risk-taking, exposure and poorer recognition of legitimate email. #phishing #cybersecurity #scam #EUrope #USa #privacy #gdpr https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/are-european-organisations-harder-to-phish

California's DROP becomes enforceable on 1 August: one request, every
registered data broker.

It does not touch real-time bidding. Every page load broadcasts a bid
request to every DSP in the auction, winners and losers alike. Google's
own documentation puts that at 2,051 entities in the US.

ICCL found purchasable segments for Pentagon staff, active military by
branch and judges.

Deletion rights operate on records. This is a broadcast. There is no
holder to serve.

https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/real-time-bidding-data-deletion

#InfoSec #Privacy #DataBrokers #AdTech #RTB #DeleteAct #DROP #US #Realtimebidding

Cleaning up your digital footprint improves your security in exactly one way: it removes inputs that attackers need. It does not make you invisible, and it does not stop a determined, well-resourced adversary who has decided you specifically are worth the effort. What it does is make targeting slower, less reliable, and more expensive. #threatintel #cybersecurity #security #privacy #digitalfootprint #opsec https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/digital-footprint-cleanup-security

For people wanting to start opting out we bundled the largest data broker firms and people search site with opt out links to save you the time looking them up. (regularly updated) co source Thumpersecure‘s Github . #databroker #optout #privacy #DROP https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/data-broker-opt-out-guide

In Cybersecurity it's called attack surface, but isn't that just a reinvented exposure out of the last 50 years of criminology studies? a motivated offender, a suitable target, and the absence of a capable guardian is almost a threat actor, a valuable or vulnerable asset, and inadequate controls. #cybersecurity #research #opsec #cybercrime #crime https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/attack-surface-exposure-criminology

The lifetime cycle of a digital footprint is like the creation of all business and user product. From harvest to market and recycle. How your own digital footprint is used to influence you decisions. #privacy #footprint #data # https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/what-your-digital-footprint-is-used-for

After the hyping of data breaches and now that's a regular item on daily news. The spotlight switches to infostealers. A brief explanatory piece on what it is and how they work using #Redline as example. #databreach #infosec #cybersecurity #opsec https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/how-infostealers-work-2026