Personal details of nearly 200 million US citizens exposed

Gerald · 06-19-17, 02:53 PM

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Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee.
The 1.1 terabytes of data includes birthdates, home addresses, telephone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the entire US population.
The data was available on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server.
Anyone could access the data as long as they had a link to it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40331215

No good news at all.

Skybird · 06-19-17, 04:36 PM

The Indian government demands its population to have ID and biometric data in centralised state databases. These include all biometric data, ID-data, insurance numbers and data. 200 million of these individual and highly sensible datasets were stolen in the earlier months of this year. That means: complete profile datasets. That is the personal biometric and ID and social insurance data of every sixth Indian citizen.

Trust digitalization and data protection. Its safe.

I just wait for the nightmare that enforced cashless payment and the prohibition of cash money willbring, inevitably. First credit car companies plunder you with fees, since you depend on them and cannot evade them. Then banks will do the same. Then the state plunderers will do the same with arbitrary taxes. And then all your monetarian wealth in your possession will be presented in a format where you cannot defend digital theft and computerised betrayel and fraud payment models. It will be so good a future, you just have to believe it.

Digital money means cashless money. Cashless money means defenceless money. weak, dfeencelss and naked you have to be. Then you are a good citizen: helpless, servile and an easy victim.

The computerized world will be so good a life. Believe it. And it is so safe. Politicians just need to say There shall be light, and there will be light.

Catfish · 06-20-17, 04:33 AM

It is all done because of the terrorists, and for your protection.

Draw out all the money from the bank*, and put it into the toolbox. Really, no joking. When you have a mobile phone, or a credit card, or one of the new german identity cards, you can be spotted anytime, anywhere, and your actions will build them a profile with which they will get you anytime.

Then RFID chips in your clothes: you enter a store, and the shop assistant greets you and astonishingly knows what you want to buy, which size you have, and where you bought what you wear. There may also be other information included, like your credit status. Those chips have no battery and are not bigger than a rice corn, stitched off into your clothes, and they survive washing and all kinds of abusing. Still NFC but who knows whether the range will not improve, over time.

Of course this is all leftist and tinfoil hat chatter, the right does not broach the issue. It is all done because of terrorists and to protect you, and to keep you from harming yourself.

*It does not bother me so much since there is no money on the bank anyway

Skybird · 06-20-17, 04:53 AM

Do it the Swedish way_ put chips under your skin.

Do it the German way: if people do not voluntarily allow new chips on ID cards (for digital ID verification)being acivated because they do not want it, do not use it, do not trust the propaganda on how safe it is, wait until - like last month in Germany - the government looses patience and then mandatorily switches these chips on on new ID cards, no matter that people said clearly now over the past years. That is democracy in action: ask the people, but take their reply only when the reply is what you want to hear, else ignore it.

Combined with this new law from May comes an even more extensive package for loosenign privacy and data proteciton rights, and inviting business big data to datamine customers and private people, plus: a loosening of restrictions for government offices to access the biometric datapool from ID card holders. In the past years, access was restricted, but nevertheless such info requests exploded form year to year, grew by several factors every years. So much for "exceptions" and "only when the individual is a suspect in flight". It now becomes routine.

Add to this the face recognition software of public surceillance cameras. We are entering the time when state authprities will know about the whereabouts of everybody 24/7. Total control.

And then the terrorists will have no chnace anymore!

Already at present, police finds it almost impossible to track and fight financial transactions via the Hawala system. The new technology will not do anything to fight this, or to prevent terrorism. But the state's control of the ordinary people will remain.

Many critics have pointed out that any democratic state necessarily will and must lead to dicatorship, for economic, sociological reasons and reasons that are inherent to the logic of state organisation and bureaucracy. It cannot be avoided. One more argument for me to oppose the idea of states.

06-19-17, 04:36 PM	#2
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The Indian government demands its population to have ID and biometric data in centralised state databases. These include all biometric data, ID-data, insurance numbers and data. 200 million of these individual and highly sensible datasets were stolen in the earlier months of this year. That means: complete profile datasets. That is the personal biometric and ID and social insurance data of every sixth Indian citizen. Trust digitalization and data protection. Its safe. I just wait for the nightmare that enforced cashless payment and the prohibition of cash money willbring, inevitably. First credit car companies plunder you with fees, since you depend on them and cannot evade them. Then banks will do the same. Then the state plunderers will do the same with arbitrary taxes. And then all your monetarian wealth in your possession will be presented in a format where you cannot defend digital theft and computerised betrayel and fraud payment models. It will be so good a future, you just have to believe it. Digital money means cashless money. Cashless money means defenceless money. weak, dfeencelss and naked you have to be. Then you are a good citizen: helpless, servile and an easy victim. The computerized world will be so good a life. Believe it. And it is so safe. Politicians just need to say There shall be light, and there will be light. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

06-20-17, 04:33 AM	#3
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	It is all done because of the terrorists, and for your protection. Draw out all the money from the bank, and put it into the toolbox. Really, no joking. When you have a mobile phone, or a credit card, or one of the new german identity cards, you can be spotted anytime, anywhere, and your actions will build them a profile with which they will get you anytime. Then RFID chips in your clothes: you enter a store, and the shop assistant greets you and astonishingly knows what you want to buy, which size you have, and where you bought what you wear. There may also be other information included, like your credit status. Those chips have no battery and are not bigger than a rice corn, stitched off into your clothes, and they survive washing and all kinds of abusing. Still NFC but who knows whether the range will not improve, over time. Of course this is all leftist and tinfoil hat chatter, the right does not broach the issue. It is all done because of terrorists and to protect you, and to keep you from harming yourself. It does not bother me so much since there is no money on the bank anyway __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

06-20-17, 04:53 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Do it the Swedish way_ put chips under your skin. Do it the German way: if people do not voluntarily allow new chips on ID cards (for digital ID verification)being acivated because they do not want it, do not use it, do not trust the propaganda on how safe it is, wait until - like last month in Germany - the government looses patience and then mandatorily switches these chips on on new ID cards, no matter that people said clearly now over the past years. That is democracy in action: ask the people, but take their reply only when the reply is what you want to hear, else ignore it. Combined with this new law from May comes an even more extensive package for loosenign privacy and data proteciton rights, and inviting business big data to datamine customers and private people, plus: a loosening of restrictions for government offices to access the biometric datapool from ID card holders. In the past years, access was restricted, but nevertheless such info requests exploded form year to year, grew by several factors every years. So much for "exceptions" and "only when the individual is a suspect in flight". It now becomes routine. Add to this the face recognition software of public surceillance cameras. We are entering the time when state authprities will know about the whereabouts of everybody 24/7. Total control. And then the terrorists will have no chnace anymore! Already at present, police finds it almost impossible to track and fight financial transactions via the Hawala system. The new technology will not do anything to fight this, or to prevent terrorism. But the state's control of the ordinary people will remain. Many critics have pointed out that any democratic state necessarily will and must lead to dicatorship, for economic, sociological reasons and reasons that are inherent to the logic of state organisation and bureaucracy. It cannot be avoided. One more argument for me to oppose the idea of states. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.