• @[email protected]OP
      link
      fedilink
      461 year ago

      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.

      • Bleeping Lobster
        link
        English
        161 year ago

        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

        • @NounsAndWords
          link
          17
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          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?

              • Bleeping Lobster
                link
                English
                2
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                Build it and they will come edit someone already did!

                lemmy.world/c/BrandNewSentence

            • @NounsAndWords
              link
              31 year ago

              But you know Nestle wouldn’t. To them child slavery is like steroids on steroids.

          • Bleeping Lobster
            link
            English
            31 year ago

            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

  • @satanmat
    link
    331 year ago

    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.

    • @totallynotarobot
      link
      41 year ago

      Hey why not. No gatekeeping here; democratize doxxy shit ✊💅

  • auth
    link
    fedilink
    4
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’ll give you $20 if you dox me