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So in order to see the information they may or may not have on you they ask for your name, full address, last 4 ssn, date of birth, and email... if they didn't
by leef 13y ago
So in order to see the information they may or may not have on you they ask for your name, full address, last 4 ssn, date of birth, and email... if they didn't have any data on you before they do now.
- smcnally 13y agoI had precisely the same reaction in the comments of the article. http://t.co/g6LpJvdGzL http://t.co/g6LpJvdGzL
- jyu 13y agoThis reminds me of the fake IQ quiz games, where if you take the test, you fail.
- smcnally 13y agoYou'd think one of the leaders in the personal data broking field -- online and off -- would be able to go about this a bit less ham-fistedly. But I'm also surprised as many hacker newsers have submitted their info as it sounds. So, if hamfisted works, hamfist.
- gcb0 13y agoThey do have a data set for the name, for the address and one for the ssn and a huge ones for your email and IP address. Now you just gave them a unique user ID to tie it all together.
- sliverstorm 13y agoSame gambit as the 'ol, "There's been a credit card database leak! Enter your credit card number to see if it has been leaked!"
- glennos 13y agoThis "service" seems extraordinarily twisted.
- kordless 13y agoYeah, fuck that noise.
- ballard 13y agoYeap. And the US laws are such that once your details are known to a company in the US jurisdiction, you have basically no rights or recourse for what they can do with your details (ie sell them). I only know this as a friend is in law school researching & writing papers in this area. (IANAL.)