On: Data Brokers

[whtifbru]

What about businesses that aggregate api data, if you use 2-3 data brokers are you a data broker? Seems to me only the source should register but the i think theres a lack of definition there. So every user who uses a api with consumer demographics and sells data should register as a data broker?

[lmkg → whtifbru]

Data brokers are middlemen. Not the source (no direct relationship to the data subject), and not the consumer (derive revenue from selling data).

If the process of selling data involves a daisy-chain of three middlemen companies, they're all data brokers.

[mportela → whtifbru]

If you collect data from third-party APIs and then re-sell them, you are a data broker. If you only use the data, then you aren't.