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It is equal folly to have it in commercial or gov control. The more people and more comprehensive it is, the more incentive to hack it or abuse it. The bigger
by angry_octet 8y ago
It is equal folly to have it in commercial or gov control. The more people and more comprehensive it is, the more incentive to hack it or abuse it.
The bigger problem is that the TLO is an adversary database -- it is a record of information about the enemy, i.e. the debtor, the citizen. Automated licence plate readers are standardized on repo cars now. Of course, they are collecting location data about all cars. Police are also widely deploying ALPR. You don't really have location privacy in America any more, even if you don't have cell phone.
- paganel 8y agoI didn’t say I approve of commercial data hoarding, quite the contrary, it’s just that, for the moment at least, those companies can’t put someone in jail (or worse) based on that collected data, the way a government can.
- angry_octet 8y agoI think it might actually be worse, because the govt is constrained in collecting some data, but they can query company databases where it is collected (either on a fee basis or a third party record search). This is the case with the cell phone location database in the US.
- HillaryBriss 8y ago> ...but they can query company databases... my favorite example: a US person setting up their own personal account on the US Social Security Administration's website must provide sufficient authentication information. and where Social Security get this authentication information about each person? Equifax! [0] see https://www.ssa.gov/hlp/mySSA/df-idverification.html https://www.ssa.gov/hlp/mySSA/df-idverification.html