; or (ii) sells, licenses, trades, provides for consideration, or is otherwise compensated for disclosing personal information to a third party. (B) Exclusion The term data broker does not include an entity who solely uses, sells, licenses, trades, provides for consideration, or is otherwise compensated for disclosing personal information for one or more of the following activities: (i) Providing 411 directory assistance or directory information services, including name, address, and telephone number, on behalf of or as a function of a telecommunications carrier. (ii) Providing an individual’s publicly available information if the information is being used by the recipient as it relates to that individual’s business or profession. (iii) Providing personal information to a third party at the express direction of the individual for a clearly disclosed single-use purpose. (iv) Providing or using personal information for assessing, verifying, or authenticating an individual’s identity, or for investigating or preventing actual or potential fraud. (v) Gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest (as determined by the Commission) for dissemination to the public. (vi) Acting as a consumer reporting agency (as defined in section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( 15 U.S.C. 1681a(f) )). (C) Exclusion from sale (i) In general For purposes of this paragraph, the term sells does not include a one-time or occasional sale of assets of an entity as part of a transfer of control of those assets that is not part of the ordinary conduct of the entity. (ii) Notice required To meet the exclusion criteria described in clause (i), an entity must provide notice to the Commission, in the manner determined appropriate by the Commission, of any such one-time or occasional sale of assets. (4) Delete The term delete means to remove or destroy information such that the