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ICE investigators used a private utility database covering millions to pursue immigration violations

March 4, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Washington Post – Feb. 26, 2021 Government agencies increasingly are accessing private information they are not authorized to compile on their own By Drew Harwell Feb. 26, 2021 at 1:55 p.m. PST U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have tapped a private database containing hundreds of millions of phone, water, electricity and other … [Read more…]

Posted in: Future of Work, Politics, Racism, Slavery, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: CLEAR, credit reports, criminal histories, database, electricity, employment, EQUIFAX, Housing, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, phone, Thomson Reuters, utility records, vehicle registrations, Water

The real question about the Equifax hack

September 10, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

It seems to me that this breach as outlined by F. Manjoo in the NYT today is about trust. The crown jewels have been stolen. Because they all use the same dataset and we’ve always considered them interchangeable, there is no difference, TransUnion and Experian are as culpable as Equifax. So, now that the data … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: 2017, Credit Report, EQUIFAX, EXPERIAN, Hacking, Identy Theft, TRANSUNION

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