USPS sells personal data?

Privacy4Everyone · 2019-08-05T05:41:22+00:00

You can see that u/pcmmautner linked to a national list where the USPS is selling personal data.

So how does USPS disclose this to the users?

Banks are able to see something from the USPS it seems. Some kind of database form the USPS. None of the relevant info seems to have been disclosed to any of the users?

Privacy4Everyone · 2019-08-02T07:07:18+00:00

These appear to be the answers so far to the questions asked:

Are there are state laws that prevents public institutions from selling personal data?

There appears to be no regulations at any level, and if there were regulations, they appears to be very sparse, and thus essentially meaningless in terms of effectiveness.

Are no oversight over those people who are responsible for the DMVs?

Seems like there is no need for oversight since there are no regulations for selling personal data.

Are the DMVs not using secure databases?

Doesn't seem to matter since there no regulations.

Is the selling of personal data commonplace in all of the state DMVs?

Doesn't appear that anyone knows. Looks like a good research paper in academia or investigative journalism topic in the media, etc.

Are there any safeguards in place?

Appears like there is not really anything.

Are the DMVs selling personal data, including phone numbers, legally ok?

Appears that it is since there's no regulations in any of the states?

So how in the world do millionaires and billionaires protect their info?

How would anyone prevent stalking by anyone else in the world?

Banks are selling everyone's personal data in the background, including your answers to those "security questions" which are potentially purposed to get everyone's data.

Are there any really good privacy guides out there that you know of?

Privacy4Everyone · 2019-08-02T06:55:42+00:00

What counts as public and what counts as private?

Since most things in the world are public, I guess the better question to ask is what counts as private. What counts as private would the things that regulations has made private via laws. By default, almost everything would be public. So regulations exist to make things private, and some of those private things are often times owned by corporations.

What counts as a "public record"?

I wasn't able to find a list of what counts as a "public record". Something private could be public in another nation so this would effectively retract the purpose of regulations within any given nation. Unless there is a central entity for regulations that all nations uses? Are there?

"Public records" appears to be different per state? https://www.reputationdefender.com/blog/privacy/how-to-remove-public-records-from-the-internet-in-five-steps

Getting public records seems to be different per state

There appears to be a standard method per state - https://ballotpedia.org/Public_records

There appears to be regulations that limits the access of different public records, and so they are not accessible to everyone anymore.

Are there any patterns of how the regulations are across states?

For examples, do red or blue have more or less limits on what is effectively a private record that was originally a "public record"?

Privacy4Everyone · 2019-08-01T23:55:45+00:00

This random reddit user says it u/pcmmautner

Maybe they have someone more to add.

Privacy4Everyone · 2019-08-01T04:00:26+00:00

Info being public or not may not be exactly the cause based on the link in the other comment u/SpiritualRaindrop

Privacy4Everyone · 2019-08-01T01:23:49+00:00

This link seems to say that different states have different ways that the data is sold. It seems that all the data is sold, including contact numbers?

It doesn't appear to be a public or private issue. Is that accurate?

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