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Whenever you browse the internet, accept cookies, or download an app, data brokers could be harvesting your personal information, such as your name, address, email, and phone number. Third parties can then use this data to send you spam emails, hit you with targeted ads, or pester you with telemarketing calls.

While you can send requests to data brokers to remove your private information yourself, this takes a lot of time and effort. 

Luckily, thanks to Surfshark, you don't have to. The VPN provider has launched Incogni, a data privacy tool that handles everything on your behalf. The subscription-based service will contact these companies for you and demand that they remove your information from their databases.