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They define data broker as someone who collects and sells your data. Companies like Facebook and Google do not sell data they collect, contrary to what a lot of people assume.

The page refers to 500 data brokers, but I’d like to find the complete list they use.

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Google does "sell" your data to other Alphabet companies except they call it "partnership" or "strategic sharing" and it should be completely illegal and be called data brokerage too. Same with Meta.

There is a reason the FTC and DOJ force this companies to break up, except they have hordes of lawyers and the law will always be catching up to reality so it doesn't do much in this day and age.

> Google does "sell" your data to other Alphabet companies

That doesn't match the definition of data broker. It's also a huge stretch, as many companies have subsidiaries and different divisions that are separate legal structures.

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