@Horseshoez wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Link to the Time article and link to the data breach checker included in the article
https://time.com/7011872/social-security-data-breach-information/
https://npd.pentester.com/
Thanks for the links; I just checked and virtually every place I've lived (spread across five states) since June of 1988 shows up on the list; same thing for my wife (her data only goes back to about 1990).
None of mine are, which is not surprising. I've consistently opted out of data brokers and suppressed various ones. Removed myself from marketing lists.
Did the same for my spouse which was also not in the database.
I also typically avoid being tracked online through a series of ad blocking, script blocking, fingerprint poisonings, cookie non-persistence, VPNs, and Tor.
I also have no social media presence.
These data brokers work with HR departments to basically rat people out for what they do on Twitter and Facebook, so you get into an argument with some Internet jerk, they see that, they flag it. You like something that could be "risky" for the employer, it gets flagged.
Then you only find out about it if they don't give you a job and you request a consumer report within so many days.
These brokers are more like mixers. They take some info here, and some there. They tell people everything about you. They're scum.
There's a reason why Facebook has a real name policy. It makes it even easier to ensure that they're selling your personal data to be mixed into the right advertising and data broker files.
