Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Learning What Companies Know and Share About You

California has a bill in the sausage grinder that, "...would require any business that retains customer data to give a copy of that information, including who it has been shared with, for the past year upon request. It applies to companies that are both on- and offline."

People have no idea how much information is collected about them by companies. The idealist in me thinks this would be really cool in my state too! The pragmatic computer guy in me wonders what's to stop me from social engineering my way in to ask a company for someone else's information?

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