I thought some of you might want to see this. Consumer Reports is beginning to expose the companies and agencies that traffic in the private information contained in public records.
Consumer
Reports Investigation:The Government Is Trafficking in
Your Privacy
Traffickers include marketers,
employers, government agencies and thieves...
The practices of commercial data brokers
and government agencies can rob consumers of their
privacy, threaten them with identity theft and profile
them as dead beats or security risks, according to an
investigative report in Consumer Reports...
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