Friday, September 08, 2006

Your privacy for sale

In an interview on Meet the Press , I saw the new FEMA director say this is the company that will be used to identify recipients of aid in the future:

the practices of the data collectors can rob you of your privacy, threaten you with ID theft, and profile you as, say, a deadbeat or a security risk. Worse, there’s no way to find out what they are telling others about you. When our reporters requested their own records, they were told that they could not see everything that was routinely sold to businesses. The meager information they did receive was punctuated with errors.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The biggest seller of personal information is the United States Postal Service...which shouldn't exist now that it can be done privately. But when you say the word privatize, libs scream...demonstrating libnorance to its highest degree.

Mike