This article is in the business section of the newspaper. That's not exactly the optimal section if your intention was to "start a privacy panic about every dam

This article is in the business section of the newspaper. That's not exactly the optimal section if your intention was to "start a privacy panic about every damn thing." Many people including myself were not familiar with the companies mentioned in this article or the use of their software for fraud prevention, these are the thrust of the article not hysteria. Your conspiratorial assessment of this article seems to be misplaced.