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It pisses me off too. US is so concerned about privacy, yet a LOT of your private information is made public once you start opening bank accounts, buying real e
by goshx 10y ago
It pisses me off too. US is so concerned about privacy, yet a LOT of your private information is made public once you start opening bank accounts, buying real estate, sign up for gym, etc.
When I opened my first bank account they had a typo in my name, which I found out when I received my debit card. I asked them to fix it immediately, however, two to three weeks later I was already getting mail from stores addressed to the misspelled name.
When I was buying my first house I immediately started receiving mail from moving companies at my old address before I signed the closing. After I moved I got a lot of junk mail with other kinds of offers. I even started getting PHONE CALLS from a home monitoring/alarm company. When I asked them where they got my number they hang up.
It is like all the information is up for sale somewhere.
- diminoten 10y ago> US is so concerned about privacy This is not true, at all. HN may provide that appearance, but the vast majority of people who live in the US do not care about their privacy, based on their actions.
- confounded 10y agoTaking power away from capital to give to individuals is currently positioned as un-patriotic in the US (e.g. pandabear187 above's beleif that regulation of data brokers will lead to fascism or communism, even though he goes to great lengths to protect his own information).