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Wait a second, the article suggests that a credit reporting agency could simply engage with google or other data brokers and obtain browsing history, NOT simply
by crispyambulance 5y ago
Wait a second, the article suggests that a credit reporting agency could simply engage with google or other data brokers and obtain browsing history, NOT simply statistical target demographic roll-ups, but browsing data for actual specific named individuals.
Is that really possible?
- White_Wolf 5y agoFor the majority of people it is doable if you start gathering enough data (from all sources you can) to link devices and browsers that one person owns. Not easy for the average person but with the size of some of these behemoths... 100% possible.
- crispyambulance 5y agoYeah, I've heard about how it's "possible" to piece together information about individuals from data-brokers (see nytimes article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...). But has any entity (outside of the CCP in China) ever done this on a large-enough scale that it would even begin to make sense for a "customer" like a credit reporting agency?
- asiachick 5y agoFrom Google, No! Google does not share user data. From "other data brokers" maybe
- crispyambulance 5y agoOK, but is Google's ability to "share user-specific data" with an credit-reporting agency or any high-enough bidder, merely a matter of changing a policy clause and turning on the spigot?