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Anyone know of a confirmed instance of: > They generate profits by ... selling [your personal information] to ... prospective employers ... ? This one seems

• metalliqaz 5y ago
  It's indirect. Employers use one of many firms that do background checks, and those firms pay for access to the data.
  • djoldman 5y ago
    If you're a background check company, it seems like a dangerous game to attempt to systematically match data from such unofficial sources to potential employees. Aren't they opening themselves up to lawsuits if they match the wrong person to the wrong potential employee? Additionally, isn't it illegal to decide to hire/not-hire based on a bunch of protected traits? (age, sex, orientation, religion, etc.) It seems like a lot of the quoted information would be off-limits.
    • metalliqaz 5y ago
      have you ever dealt with background checks? they don't care
• jeffbee 5y ago
  There certainly are firms that will sell a dossier on you employers or anyone else who wants it, it's just not any of the players mentioned in the article. That's why I hate these articles filled with non sequitur fuzzy thinking. If you want to end the data economy you need to start with the real players: telcos, payment processing networks, ISPs, insurance companies, credit bureaus.
• arcticfox 5y ago
  It's one of the top use cases listed for https://www.peopledatalabs.com/ https://www.peopledatalabs.com/ (candidate sourcing). And incidentally, PDL was the source of a 1.2-billion person data breach a few years ago: https://www.wired.com/story/billion-records-exposed-online/ https://www.wired.com/story/billion-records-exposed-online/