Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses
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You can find out someone's home address from their email address. These brokers are out of control.
It's insane how many there are. I've been using Experian to find and remove my info from these sites and there are literally hundreds it's done so far.
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The last major American privacy law, the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act was passed in 1988 by Reagan. The only reason it happened is that politicians realized that their privacy was affected. Robert Bork was going through his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and someone got a hold of the tapes he had rented and published them.
Politicians were worried about their own personal privacy, so they passed a new law to protect the privacy of people's video tape rentals.
Maybe the fact that the targets here were politicians will mean that something will happen with data privacy, for once.
Never heard that story before.
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It's insane how many there are. I've been using Experian to find and remove my info from these sites and there are literally hundreds it's done so far.
I guarantee you none of your data is actually deleted. Experian is a surveillance capitalism data broker. They're selling both the virus and the snake oil to "cure" it.
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Just like he did with the eggs!
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He's white.
Luigi is white and they’re trying to send him to the gallows.
I think him being conservative is the factor here.
Although I agree if he weren’t white he would be treated way worse…
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Just like he did with the eggs!
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While true, the lookup is the address to the owner, not the other way around. Compiling the information to show querying by person should be illegal.
My county lets you search property tax records by owner name. It is trivial to find someone.
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It's actually really easy to get your info off these sites, as they have to delete it upon your request. Just take 20 minutes, pull up any random Top 20 Background Check Sites list, locate the specific pages with your info, and go to town with those deletion requests. (There should be a link to a deletion form on the page or a link to submit a request via email, at least that's how it was when I did this five years ago.)
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I guarantee you none of your data is actually deleted. Experian is a surveillance capitalism data broker. They're selling both the virus and the snake oil to "cure" it.
I'm only talking about those scummy sites that have your info if you web search your own name. Corporations have been buying and selling my info for decades, at this point.
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Luigi is white and they’re trying to send him to the gallows.
I think him being conservative is the factor here.
Although I agree if he weren’t white he would be treated way worse…
IMO nothing to do with the murderer, all to do with the targets. If the assassin was a black conservative dude popping off perceived liberals/Democrats/socialist/antifa/any other word it would be the same. If the dude was a white conservative and was shooting at perceived Republican/Nationalist/fascist/bootlickers/bigots and or billionaires, straight to the gulag.
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It's insane how many there are. I've been using Experian to find and remove my info from these sites and there are literally hundreds it's done so far.
Crazy crowdfunding idea - what if we bought the whole thing and individually requested delisting for everyone?
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They'll pass a law that only benefits them. Our data will still all be up for grabs.
Some sites already do this. Lexisnexis won't remove all of your info unless you're a government official, police officer, or have a police report about a threat against you. Absolute bullshit and should be illegal.
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There is no allegedly, the dude was a total boomer and literally wrote out instructions on how to dox someone in his notebook which are shown in the federal complaint against him
Literally outlines which sites are free, which ones have free trials, etc
Like you you would think he would just use a text document or bookmarks or something
Writing stuff down with pen and paper is an objectively better way to remember things then digital files, also way more secure unless you really, really know what you're doing.
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Why aren't the data brokers being charged with accessory to murder?
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These sites should be illegal. There is no legitimate use for them
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EFF was right again
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Luigi is white and they’re trying to send him to the gallows.
I think him being conservative is the factor here.
Although I agree if he weren’t white he would be treated way worse…
If the Nazis stay in power long enough, they'll revert Irish and Italian people back to non-white
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EFF was right again
That'll be on the Internet's headstone.
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It's actually really easy to get your info off these sites, as they have to delete it upon your request. Just take 20 minutes, pull up any random Top 20 Background Check Sites list, locate the specific pages with your info, and go to town with those deletion requests. (There should be a link to a deletion form on the page or a link to submit a request via email, at least that's how it was when I did this five years ago.)
I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding there's actually no legal obligation for them to delete US citizens' data. They generally delete it anyways to avoid creating backlash that would lead to regulation, though.
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I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding there's actually no legal obligation for them to delete US citizens' data. They generally delete it anyways to avoid creating backlash that would lead to regulation, though.
It probably depends on the state.
But, I did mine five years ago and still check it periodically. My info's not on Spokeo or any of those scummy sites even all these years later, so it's a good way to spend 20-30 minutes.
