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It's funny that no one talks about credit card companies actually selling personal data to the highest bidder: http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-
by Cieplak 12y ago
It's funny that no one talks about credit card companies actually selling personal data to the highest bidder:
http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-purchase-data-to-advertisers-2013-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-purchase-da...
Not very hard to deanonymize a person's every card purchase.
- maxerickson 12y agoIt would be awesome if you deanonymized yourself and wrote it up. Edit: (I mean from publicly available data, didn't realize how ambiguous that was until I reread it)
- ctb_mg 12y agoPretty intrigued by this! However, if the data is sold by CC companies, is it truly "public"? Regardless, would you even be able to target an individual without spending lots of money to buy a large batch of "anonymized" spending data?
- maxerickson 12y agoI guess it would have been better to say "generally available" data. So anything you could buy would be fine, but no stealing or fraud.