Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony...
by jeremyjh on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:34PM
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People shouldn't be doing business in the shadows. If you are engaged in economic activity you should be a knowable entity. It isn't hard to find where wealthy people live anyway.
Re:US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anony...
by nullc on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:44PM
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The "economic activity" being discussed in my sub thread here is simply owning your own home and not having your address easily available for kidnappers and nut bags. It is, in fact, pretty hard (as in the cost can be easily raised to a couple grand with a bit of opsec).
Renters have no such disclosure of where they live.
This law could have at least made unauthorized disclosure of the information collected a felony as is the case for tax returns, but it does not.
It doesn't matter if the information isn't supposed to be made public, if you hand it over it's easily social engineered out, and if you hand it over it gets sold to data brokers. The only way to be secure is to not actually share the data, and this law-- a rider which bypassed democratic review by being tacked onto a budget bill-- makes doing so a crime.
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I think that no law should be passed that requires the collection of personal information without including penalties for abuse of the information at least as severe as the penalties for not providing the information.