How Equifax Became a Private IRS

Re:How Equifax Became a Private IRS by ethbr0 on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:28PM (#34499268)

Outside of state laws and HIPAA, what national laws in the United States limit information sharing from a private party?

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Re:How Equifax Became a Private IRS by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:04AM (#34499540)

Video rental records is it. Everything else is up for sale.

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Re:How Equifax Became a Private IRS by thephyber on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:43AM (#34502387)

I believe there are a number of siloed categories:

- HIPPA is for health care providers and their vendors

- Traditional wired telecom has long been protected. And fraud over telecom has a special wire fraud statute.

- Mail thru the USPS

- COPPA for PII of under 13 data

- Federal election law prevents election records used for commercial purposes

- basically all of the government classified data system

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Re:How Equifax Became a Private IRS by alistairSH on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:08PM (#34506530)

- FERPA for data held by colleges/unis.

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