10.22.2013

You may worry all you like about the NSA but…

Can we trust the data brokers who store our most intimate private details? | Ars Technica

An identity theft service that prosecutors say illegally sold social security numbers, birth dates, driver license numbers, and other sensitive data for more than 500,000 people purchased much of the information from credit service Experian, according to a report published Sunday night.

…like our friends the R's say, the private sector is more efficient. (Like, for example, the private-sector company that built healthcare.gov. Or, for that matter, the private-sector companies that do almost all the government's IT. But hey.)

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