EPISODE 009: DATA BROKER SITES AND A CONVERSATION WITH LAWRENCE GENTILELLO FROM OPTERY
In this episode, cybersecurity and privacy expert Ray Heffer talks with Lawrence Gentellio, the CEO and Founder of Optery, about the intricacies of data brokers, Lawrenceâs own experience with identity theft, the current state of privacy in the U.S. and its future, the bare minimum people should be doing to protect and secure their private data, and much more.
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- https://lockdown.media/podcasts/009/
- https://podcast.lockdown.media/2149976/14649675-009-data-broker-sites-and-a-conversation-with-lawrence-gentilello-from-optery
âPeople have this âOh Iâve got nothing to hide, I donât care about privacy.â But my response is always âOh you have a lot to protect, your identity being one of those things, so why shouldnât you care?ââ
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âI really hope that we would get something at the federal level, that we would have a consistent standard privacy law for all citizens of the United States. Itâs kind of shocking that in this day and age in 2024 we still donât have oneâŠAt a bare minimum it can and should say consumers have the right to opt-out. Whatâs kind of crazy is most people in the United States today donât even have that legal right. If youâre in a state that doesnât have a privacy law, you literally do not have the legal right to opt-out. And when data brokers honor the opt-outs, itâs really just a kind of self-enforcement and self-policing themselves.â
Lawrence on the future of privacy in the U.S