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Your data has been sold to websites like MyLife and WhitePages. Here’s how to remove it

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States sell your data to brokers who get them to websites like WhitePages, MyLife and others. They in turn re-sell them to you, without permission.

      
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
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