Tldr: the credit bureaus are selling your information.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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To be clear for people who haven't read the article: the credit bureaus themselves are not selling information directly to criminal organisations. They are selling to other companies, who in turn may provide that information to even more third parties, who then sell it to data brokers. An example given in the article of what this data journey may look like was:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has used similar data that flowed from utility companies to Equifax, which then was sold to data brokers.
The tools and databases owned by these data brokers are then used by criminals to sell information to anyone.
I wonder, could this problem be solved by adding some 'junk' data to each access request? With that junk data being a unique identifier, so the authorities can setup a sting to catch whoever is selling access
Without legislation forcing it, why would they bother? They already have enough separation from the crimes to avoid legal repercussions, and they get to sell data with the "this will be used for profitable criminal activity" premium baked into the original sale price.
It's like expecting Nestle to take any ~~steroids~~ action (weird auto-correct) to prevent child slavery. Why are they going to stir the pot and screw up the nice thing they have going?
I'm torn, but I think I'd take steroids to prevent child slavery.
Do we have c/ABrandNewSentence
Build it and they will come edit someone already did!
lemmy.world/c/BrandNewSentence
But you know Nestle wouldn't. To them child slavery is like steroids on steroids.
Slight tangent, but autocorrect seems to have gotten terrible the last year or so. My theory: as more and more people are using it, the initial dataset is being diluted by more and more bad typers. Instead of improving the dataset, it's pulling it in so many different directions that it doesn't know which way is up anymore
This is just wrong on every level!
I’d like to crowdsource the collection of all the data of the USA congress, and then send a complete copy to them, and any remaining newspapers.
I wish he had the balls to follow through with it
🤣🤣🤣
I’m thinking that I saw that. I’m claiming that yes. I likely stole that from him.
It’s now illegal to sell information of sitting politicians.
(Them, Probably)
Definitely read "hookers"... disappointed.
Hey why not. No gatekeeping here; democratize doxxy shit ✊💅
I'll give you $20 if you dox me
I did but found you have less than $20 in your savings…
Since you already did, it is sunk cost so post my info