They will be sentenced to a small fine and a harsh talking to that ends with a hug.
“And what did we all learn from this experience”
everyone begins laughing maniacally
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:
The only thing that’s going to stop this particular type of hack is government regulation that prohibits the storage of personal information and heavy fines and jail time to enforce it.
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
Argh, this is so infuriating! This needs to stop, we need proper protection against this bullshit. Clearly, the current way of doing things is insufficient. I can only hope that real change comes by actively fighting for it.
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.
