Tldr: the credit bureaus are selling your information.
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
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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’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
