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Of revenue. so they have problems on multiple fronts. >> we heard from a number of people some of the regulation that hasn't been there is likely coming. the former facebook operations manager write this is in the "washington post." once the data passed from facebook servers to the developer, facebook lost all insight or control over how the da it was a used. to prevent use, facebook created a set of platform policies that forbade. certain activity such as selling the data or passing it to an ad network or data broker such as cambridge. however, facebook had very few ways to discover abuse or ...

I'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. whether we like this or not, there's something out there called data broker. a data broker collects and sells all kinds of personal information about you and me. and just about every american. our income, where we shop, where we vacation, some of our habits and practices. some personal stuff too. you know that can lead to an overload of spam e-mail. drives you crazy. it can lead to other stuff too you might not know about....

I could find that lists all the information a data broker has access to. i think at this point, this is something that really needs to -- i guess, take the form of legislative action, much in the way we have seen with credit reporting agencies and that sort of thing. i think that's where it's going, but right now, there's not much you can do. not much protection. federal law protects some of your medical records, but we know they have gotten access to some of that information. we know that your credit report, you have access to that, and you can certainly look online and make edits and changes...

Information to marketers. listen to one privacy expert at a senate hearing on this very issue. >> the data broker industry as it is today does not have constraints and does not have shame. it will sell any information about any person, regardless of sensitivity, for 7.9 cents a name. which is the price of a list of rape sufferers which was recently sold. >> rape sufferers. with me now, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, sunny hostin, and zain asher. we heard the woman there. rape victims. what other lists, what other groups of people are these datda brokers selling their information...

>> stores can take this information to a data broker and ask them to match up the name with the zip code in order to get the person's home address. they might be able to get e-mail and phone number as well. >> reporter: cliff hushnagle, who teaches law at university of berkeley says they may take that information and target it with other ad campaigns, even share it with other retailers. they can find out your income, whether you've gone through bankruptcy. the practice is not different than what targeted groups use to get people's zip codes. but they often don't use names with addresses. retai...