Article 6XV4A How did you get my number? Inside the shadowy world of data brokers

How did you get my number? Inside the shadowy world of data brokers

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Josh Taylor Technology reporter
from Technology | The Guardian on (#6XV4A)

When political spam landed in Priya Dev's inbox during the last election campaign, she decided to track down the source

Priya Dev has a clue on how political spam ended up in her inbox during the 2025 federal election campaign.

Like many Australians, Dev endured an unwanted flood of Trumpet of Patriots text messages - Clive Palmer has admitted to sending 17m of them. But it was email spam from one of the major political parties that she thought she could do something about.

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