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How a data mining giant got me wrong

Posted on March 29, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Tom Bergin reports:

I’m 57, with a 30-year-old wife, a fairly new hot water boiler, an old-style television, a petrol car and no kids.

Tom Bergin. Credit: Reuters TV.

Actually, none of that is true. But that is what you might believe if you purchased access to my data from the world’s largest information broker by market value.

Read more on Reuters.  Even if your data are wrong, they’re still commercially valuable. But what does that mean for you?

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