Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
by parkerhiggins on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:04AM
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It’s worse than that.
Id.me originally started by providing verification for group discounts. Fair enough needs to verify to provide a discount and facilitate commerce.
They’ve now used those groups as a stepping stone to verify the public. They want everyone.
Id.me’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service state that they will not sell your data. Good, but they absolutely can and will sell your demographic cohort. With the buyers being their integration clients (brands) and data brokers.
Hopefully they use differential privacy techniques. Doubtful. It quickly has become a government mandated (irs.gov) Facebook style audience mining network. That’s why Google invested in them and had a seat on their board.
They were damn good to hook wink the IRS and VA on that one.
They’ve now used those groups as a stepping stone to verify the public. They want everyone.
Id.me’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service state that they will not sell your data. Good, but they absolutely can and will sell your demographic cohort. With the buyers being their integration clients (brands) and data brokers.
Hopefully they use differential privacy techniques. Doubtful. It quickly has become a government mandated (irs.gov) Facebook style audience mining network. That’s why Google invested in them and had a seat on their board.
They were damn good to hook wink the IRS and VA on that one.
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/monetizing-data-the-edd...