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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by joering2 on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:20AM (#17422392)
Congress grilled Equifax and nothing. Average person saw Equifax commercial on “hey be smart we will keep your info safe with alerts” and thought “wow this company cares about my data” when its precisely opposite.

If the congress is unable or doesnt want to draft a bill to stop predators from milking money off of your data, then that money probably ends up in their pocket some way. Or at least some of it.

Please dont quit your job for the sake of your security - food, shelter, etc. Move these assholes out with next election. Vote in young people that are probably as angry about this shit as you are, in hope they won’t sell out their soul.

Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by axaxs on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:24AM (#17422408)
In my ideal mind, I'd keep my job, it's pretty lax as long as I deliver. But I want to fix privacy. I'm working with a guy I respect, who is also all about privacy, but I just don't think his model works. Ideally I'll donate some dev time for free, but if I saw even a glimmer of hope, I'd go all in. We can't trust congress, we need a private sector movement. I'm offering my services for free to anyone in the space, generally speaking.
Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by malio on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:30AM (#17422800)
> We need a private sector movement.

You should reach out to a venture called Equifax. They are providing customer alerts for data breaches and a premiere data protection service.

Your imagination is working against you here. The obvious and well-known reason that congress is ineffective is they work for the private sector, who is the disease; not the cure.

Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by greglindahl on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:28AM (#17422418)
Do you have any data to support your claim about what the average person thought about Equifax and Congress? I have a lot of strong opinions about privacy, but I'm also resigned to the fact that most people don't care about it as much as I do. So I don't guess what they're thinking.
Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by jsjohnst on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:12AM (#17422549)
> Do you have any data to support your claim about what the average person thought about Equifax

Here you go, first result in Google:

https://morningconsult.com/2018/01/16/months-after-data-brea...

Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by greglindahl on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:27AM (#17422595)
The claim was:

> Average person saw Equifax commercial on “hey be smart we will keep your info safe with alerts” and thought “wow this company cares about my data” when its precisely opposite.

The result you cite is a general consumer favorability rating for Equifax, which is different than this particular claim. People who didn't hear anything about Equifax and Congress are included in the general consumer poll. I'm not trying to nitpick, I'm just pointing at a lack of data for this particular claim.