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Last week, Hieu Minh Ngo, a 24 y.o. Vietnamese, pleaded guilty to running an identity theft service out of his home in Vietnam. But according to prosecutors, Ngo had already struck deals with one of the world’s biggest data brokers: Experian. Court records just released last week show that Ngo tricked an Experian subsidiary into giving him direct access to personal and financial data on more than 200 million Americans.
They ought to just shut those credit reporting companies down! It has always irked me that they think they have the right to collect your personal information and make a profit selling it back to you and others!
With so many breaches already, it’s hard to imagine one more will make a difference.
The rights of European citizens to the protection of their privacy and personal information are enshrined in EU law. Not so in the US...
They aren't supposed to sell it to ID thieves. It would probably help if you read all the supplied links.
Who gets to say who they are "supposed" to sell it to? I don't see that in the links, nor is there a very clear common-sense answer to that question. By the way, in the country I live in, the police are "not supposed to" lure or otherwise entrap people into US territory so they can arrest them for breaking laws while outside the USA. It's not consistent with the principles of American judicial process.
If Experian sold information to people they are not supposed to sell it to, how come they are not named in the indictment? Experian sold data -- that's what they do -- and I wish I had some of their stock. Somebody else used it fraudulently, but Experian still sold data to the highest bidder, with no responsibility to police the users of it.
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