Holy fuck! That’s almost a third of the Earth’s population! One corporation should not have that much data on individuals.
the worst part is this tidbit:
To conduct its business, National Public Data scrapes the personally identifying information of billions of individuals from non-public sources—meaning plaintiffs didn’t knowingly provide their data to the company, the complaint said.
so because our to-do list isn’t already packed with extra crap, now you can add “check your accounts every day”
Checking your account every day probably won’t even make a difference at this point.
“yep…still broke.”
If they did that to EU citizens, that’s massively illegal.
here’s a list of all the consequences they’ll probably face:
Don’t worry everyone! We will all be entitled to 1-year of free credit monitoring so it’ll be okay!
Well that was a wild ride down memory lane…
Very cool that every institution will continue to act as if SSNs are private information and you can’t get a new number issued until after someone uses it to steal your identity.
or you could start a religion and say your current number goes against it, so you need a new number
National Public Data is almost certainly subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act as a “Consumer Reporting Agency”.
What seems to be missing from the FCRA is a requirement for the security of data being held by Consumer Reporting Agencies, although such a thing may exist and I’m not finding it. If it doesn’t exist then Congress needs to get busy passing a law about it and / or Federal Agencies like the Consumer Protection Agency and the FTC need to look closer and find the existing provisions in the FCRA that would require it.
