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Presumably this will increase business sand value for the various private companies that sit on silos of such data that you access for a price.
by ThinkBeat 2y ago
Presumably this will increase business sand value for the
various private companies that sit on silos of such data
that you access for a price.
- tzs 2y agoThat actually could help. A big reason that say 50 years ago if you had made a newsworthy mistake when young and then had been clean for decades after that mistake being in newspaper didn't cause you to have trouble getting jobs or housing was that it took effort for people to find that archived newspaper item. Move to a new town far enough away that your youthful mistake didn't make the papers there and build your new life there. If someone in the new town wanted to see if you had been in the news in the old town they had to actually get someone to go to the newspaper archives in the old town and search them. There might not be any indexing of the archives good enough to allow going right to stories that mention you. They might end up having to just manually scan old newspapers (actual physical newspaper or microfiche copies). That's too expensive for people to routinely do it for everyone they hire or rent to. Now the records are digitized and on the internet. They have been indexed by search engines and used to train LLMs.
- ThinkBeat 2y agoTHey dont have to go searching. They have most of it, if not all, already in their systems. A lot of it from far more reliable sources than newspapers. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/11/data-broker-exposes-600000-sensitive-files-including-background-checks https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/11/data-broker-e... But there are far far worse (in term of all manner of personal details) you can buy
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