cbs13.com — Local Lawmaker Wants To Stop The State's Four-Year-Long Practice. Today, a Sacramento lawmaker showed how you could go to the Secretary of State's the web page where, until today, the state was selling your personal information for only $6 -- the cost of lunch.
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octanumMar 24, 2007
You can get lunch for $6 when you DINE IN HELL!!!
jessicafappitMar 24, 2007
In Soviet Russia, lunch buys you for $6.
leomarthMar 24, 2007
Your defacto State Identifcation Number. Do you have SIN?
kindofblueMar 24, 2007
According to the Sacramento Bee:"The secretary of state's office maintains about 2 million Uniform Code documents, which banks and other lending agents post with the state to record documentation of collateral that borrowers list to qualify for certain loans.The documents are typically purchased by other lenders conducting loan research."<a class="user" href="http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/142757.html">http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/142757.html</a>
bjsidersMar 24, 2007
States have been doing this for a LONG, long time.
ldfldfMar 25, 2007
This is part of a rapidly growing trend of government failing to protect our identity data. I just wrote a blog post about this at:<a class="user" href="http://lestdarknessfall.blogspot.com/2007/03/government-selling-your-identity-online.html">http://lestdarknessfall.blogspot.com/2007/03/government-selling-your-identity-online.html</a>In my post, I include quotes and links for half a dozen other news sites that covered this issue, including a related story in which hackers recently grabbed social security numbers and identity info for 71,000 Indiana state health care workers, and another in which a state DMV issued over 27,000 drivers licenses to people with false social security numbers.If you follow the issue of identity theft in the news, these stories come up every week, and as often as not it's the government that is allowing our private information to be compromised. This just goes to show why we can't allow a national ID card and a comprehensive natiional identity database that will be compromised the moment after it gets created.
gmason08Mar 25, 2007
exactly. private industry lobbies for gov to collect more private info. info then becomes "public record" allowing the public to access info. private industry accesses public info, particularly aggregating on a massive scale by 5 major data mining firms such as ChoicePoint. Public gets upset about "X" info being publicly available and gov passes legislation limiting gov collection/access to "X" info, gov contracts with private industry to access "X" info now in private hands that it has just placated public about because of new legislation which only limits "gov" employees/agencies re: "X" info. Oh and Umm, Repeat...BTW if you think the Real ID Act is about fighting terrorism and more laughable controlling our porous borders, then you probably also think gov is a "watchdog" over multi-national corps and there is a difference between Rep and Dem parties at the level that really matters.
toilingMar 25, 2007
shutdown day is funny.