I have no problem with police agencies using the tracking system for fighting crime and I can myself vouch for that system as it helped me once. By finding a stolen car the police were able to get a hold of my stolen purse and notify me even before I had no…
Continue ReadingI have been watching this somewhat “stupid” scenario for about 3 years now. Oh you see all sides of it and banks, companies, insurers snaking around the fact that they buy and sell your data with or without your permission. It’s getting old with the non dat…
Continue ReadingWe all know how bankruptcy goes and how the courts over look and distribute money to pay off the debtors and look here, data selling takes on yet one more face, so all the loyal customers are about to get screwed in the end so they can pay their debtors. Yo…
Continue ReadingThis breach/attack affects Premera Blue Cross, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska, Vivacity and Connexion Insurance Solutions. Connexion is interesting as it’s also a private insurance exchange that sells health insurance. Connexion wants developers …
Continue ReadingWell this is not something new as last year, the White House was also living way too virtual and their policies last year sucked even more. For one, they can’t even include the words “data seller” in anything they put forward and it’s a bunch of legal mumbo …
Continue ReadingHere’s yet another side on the data selling epidemic in the US but this is a little different. Sure we all know how mistakes are made but as consumers we should also have the right to have those items fixed in a timely manner. Listen to the video and this i…
Continue ReadingI know I sound like a broken record here but there’s good reason for this. I found this site on the web a while back and it appears to be growing and more data for sale is appearing. There are legitimate lists here for sale that we have all seen forever o…
Continue ReadingIf you read my blog often enough then you know I am the accidental privacy advocate around here. I have had my own issues and the last one was a company that was obviously off shore calling me on the phone about a clinical trial. Now I know the blind calls …
Continue ReadingI said a while back that Apple has the money so if any tech company could kick the data sellers out, they could and it sounds like that’s the plan. I did read to where they had talked with insurance companies if that’s the case then folks will start heading …
Continue ReadingIf you read here often enough then you know about the campaign about data selling and the campaign to license data sellers. We don’t like this as consumers as the data gets flawed and removes our dignity. 60 Minutes has a good report on Income Tax Fraud and…
Continue ReadingNot too long ago we had the story of the hospital buying patient credit card data and sure they could buy it directly from Master Card and Visa but there’s also the “middle man” who has already processed analytics about you, and in this case the price for th…
Continue ReadingPayback is bitch and here we have what I would call “data payback” and of course system admins who are in on the details of all of it probably knew this was coming as well. When you deal with data and and matching records it’s a pain and time consuming. …
Continue ReadingYou may not hear about this a lot but it’s a big move as consumers are getting tired of being marketed and sold. I spent many years in sales and also time as a developer and of course I have respect for both but today the methodologies of “chasing” consumers…
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