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I don't understand what you find so shocking about financial data from lots of people in excel sheets.

• mthoms 12y ago
  ... Being sold (and stolen by) a largely unregulated industry consisting mostly of ex-felons and thugs who do their deals in parking lots on a no-questions asked basis. We're talking about very sensitive info like SSN's, DOB's, home address, work history and so on. There's nothing shocking about that at all? Honestly, did you read the article?
  • Swannie 12y ago
    Nothing shocking - a little surprising, definitely disturbing. The lack of regulation is the most surprising thing, and the lack of interest from the US federal government to do much about it is disturbing.
    • BallinBige 12y ago
      It's a heavily regulated space, nowadays. Dodd-Frank changed it all and spawned many other regs + groups "Passed as a response to the Great Recession, it brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_...
    • mthoms 12y ago
      Isn't surprising + disturbing pretty much the very definition of shocking? Can we agree on mildly shocking? :-)