The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

By Evan Greer

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a settlement for the wrongful death of your parents you are entitled to 12 months of LifeLock's DataScrub™ service!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    i get that you're joking; but i literally got a coupon for equifax's credit monitoring service when the OPM was hacked back in 2015.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I've been fortunate enough to be offered those multiple times as well. I froze my credit with the big three agencies after the third or fourth breach. Recently learned there's apparently a fourth agency now? Cool. And there's hundreds of data broker sites...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    same here except i didn't know that there was a 4th; what's it called?

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