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> “Companies like Uber are the caretakers, not the owners, of customers’ personal information,” said U.S. Attorney Anderson (for the Northern District of Califo

> “Companies like Uber are the caretakers, not the owners, of customers’ personal information,” said U.S. Attorney Anderson (for the Northern District of California)[1] I would like that to be true, but everything I've read indicates otherwise. Uber, Google, Facebook, banks, and credit bureaus have my personal information, but I am not the owner of that information. I've been told that they own it, at least under U.S. laws. If I do own it, why can't I demand that credit bureaus delete all my personal information? The quote comes from the prosecutor of the Uber executive. If anyone should know the law regarding who owns your personal information, he should. Is he right or wrong? [1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/florida-man-and-canadian-national-plead-guilty-hackingextortion-conspiracy https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/florida-man-and-canadia... [this was a link in the featured article]

deepstack 6y ago
Exact the reason why we ought to NOT offer anything in digital form of our person information WHENEVER possible. Data is money. Why should I offer anyone anything in digital form unless I get paid!!!
- deepstack 6y ago
  I know someone is going to say because it offer your connivence. Then we each would have to weight is the connivence worth trading our privacy?
Jestar342 6y ago
With regards to financial transactions et al - it's not the same. You can't open a credit card and then demand they delete your personal info. You can't move money around banks and then expect them to "forget" you. Anonymity does not exist in finance, at least not between you and the institutions warding the money and the authorities they are regulated by. Though they are also (allegedly?) tightly controlled on what they can/cannot do with this personal info. Frankly it couldn't work if it did because it would be rife with crime (<edgelord>moreso than it already is!</edgelord>)
onion2k 6y ago
Maybe I hang around with lawyers too much, but I suspect most data that companies hold about you could be argued is actually a receipt of a transaction between you and another party, especially in the case of credit bureaus. In that sense it's not really your personal information - it's about you in part, but it's also about the other party, and if that party doesn't want the data deleted it's reasonable that it isn't.

deepstack 6y ago

Exact the reason why we ought to NOT offer anything in digital form of our person information WHENEVER possible. Data is money. Why should I offer anyone anything in digital form unless I get paid!!!

deepstack 6y ago
I know someone is going to say because it offer your connivence. Then we each would have to weight is the connivence worth trading our privacy?

Jestar342 6y ago

With regards to financial transactions et al - it's not the same. You can't open a credit card and then demand they delete your personal info. You can't move money around banks and then expect them to "forget" you. Anonymity does not exist in finance, at least not between you and the institutions warding the money and the authorities they are regulated by. Though they are also (allegedly?) tightly controlled on what they can/cannot do with this personal info. Frankly it couldn't work if it did because it would be rife with crime (<edgelord>moreso than it already is!</edgelord>)

onion2k 6y ago

Maybe I hang around with lawyers too much, but I suspect most data that companies hold about you could be argued is actually a receipt of a transaction between you and another party, especially in the case of credit bureaus. In that sense it's not really your personal information - it's about you in part, but it's also about the other party, and if that party doesn't want the data deleted it's reasonable that it isn't.