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Do you know how much of your personal data is out there on the internet?

There's a good chance it's a lot more than you're comfortable with.

Every day personal data is being sold and traded online by data brokers.

But that doesn't mean you can't stay private and protect that personal data.

Let me tell you a little personal story.

A couple years ago, I started getting random phone calls in the middle of the night from

high school students who were trying to prank call me because they saw me on TV.

I was like, how the hell did they get my number?

It turned out they had looked them up on these data broker sites.

They just paid a little bit of money.

They got my home address, my phone number, stuff like that.

Now I went to some of these sites and they had an opt out program where you could sign

up to get your data taken off of the site.

Here's the problem.

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