# What Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt?

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/what-happens-to-your-sensitive-data-when-a-data-broker-goes-bankrupt-2/
- Published: 2024-03-12T09:30:03-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Sen. Ron Wyden. Photo credit: Drew Angerer / Getty Images. Article by Jon Keegan, The Markup – February 23, 2024. In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Last year the company went public with a valuation of $1 billion (via a SPAC). Seven months later it filed for bankruptcy and has agreed to sell the company. […] Click here to view original web page at themarkup.org