The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they’ve sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
By Evan Greer
This is why the “nothing to hide nothing to fear” line is bullshit. You can be a model citizen and there will still be people actively trying to use your data to harm you.
Would you leave your door unlocked just because you’re not hiding illegal activity in your house?
For the LOVE OF FUCKING GOD, give us a FUCKING NATIONAL REGISTRY to halt data broker abuse!
Shit like this is gonna happen when data brokers collect and ALL of your personal info WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.
There should be a national registry that PROHIBITS data brokers from collecting our personal info.
We already have a National Do Not Call Registry that makes it so we cannot receive calls from robocallers and telemarketers, and there should be an opt-out system that makes it so data brokers CANNOT under ANY circumstances collect any info about us that can reveal our real identities. This is already a system that everyone in California is gonna get by 2026. That is NOT good enough! Expand it to the ENTIRETY of the United States and make it so everyone can opt-out!
This is gonna continue unless data broker abuse is stopped. https://www.donotdox.com/
Some people still laugh when I say that online Privacy is synonym of Security.
The security community needs to understand privacy and security are the same. So many times I’ve heard infosec people act like they are unrelated
it begins.
As a settlement for the wrongful death of your parents you are entitled to 12 months of LifeLock’s DataScrub™ service!
i get that you’re joking; but i literally got a coupon for equifax’s credit monitoring service when the OPM was hacked back in 2015.
Yeah, I’ve been fortunate enough to be offered those multiple times as well. I froze my credit with the big three agencies after the third or fourth breach. Recently learned there’s apparently a fourth agency now? Cool. And there’s hundreds of data broker sites…
same here except i didn’t know that there was a 4th; what’s it called?
Apparently its called “Innovis”. I tried to find a few articles but they all read like press releases or AI slop.
There is a blurb on Wikipedia fortunately:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#Consumer_reporting_agency
Only way to remove yourself is to do it manually or pay $$$ for a removal service
