What really surprises me that it is legal to collect and resell personal data in USA. This might be benefecial for companies or scammers, but definitely not for common people.
> “We opposed the data broker registry in Vermont because we believe it is unnecessary to single out a specific industry (in this case, ‘data brokers,’) when first-party data controllers often have as much data as companies like Acxiom,” the company’s chief data ethics officer Jordan Abbott told Wired.
I agree with him. First parties like Google and Facebook should be subject to the same rules.
But what really surprised me was that Acxiom has a chief data ethics officer. That job sounds like it would be as real as a consumer health advocate at Philip Morris.
How exactly am I supposed to know that Acxiom might have my data if I don’t even know that they exist? Like, I know Google and Facebook does and I know where to find it but Acxiom doesn’t even have a page when I can ask for it.
Experian
6. The number of security breaches that the data broker experienced during the prior year: 0 .
Total number of consumers affected by the breaches: 0 .
Heh, missed their little 'kerfluffle' by a few months. I'm curious if they have to refile these yearly/semi-yearly/etc.
