{"id":528,"date":"2005-06-07T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=528"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:19:28","slug":"data-brokers-data-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/07\/data-brokers-data-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Brokers != Data Accuracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a look at this article<\/a> from Bruce Schneier. It’s a report on the accuracy of data from data brokers, as well as a report on how easy (or not easy, as the case may be) to fix errors in the data. From the actual report itself:<\/p>\n

100% of the eleven participants in the study discovered errors in background check reports provided by ChoicePoint. The majority of participants found errors in even the most basic biographical information: name, social security number, address and phone number (in 67% of Acxiom reports, 73% of ChoicePoint reports). Moreover, over 40% of participants did not receive their reports from Acxiom — and the ones who did had to wait an average of three months from the time they requested their information until they received it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not<\/em> encouraging. I don’t think most people realize what is being done with their personal information these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a report on the accuracy of data from data brokers, as well as a report on how easy (or not easy, as the case may be) to fix errors in the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/02\/24\/choicepoint\/","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":0},"title":"ChoicePoint","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"If you don't take identity theft seriously, you should start NOW.","rel":"","context":"In "tech"","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":272,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/07\/isg-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":1},"title":"ISG Report","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\"According to news reports, the testimony of Charles Duelfer and the thousand-page Iraq Survey Group report released yesterday suggest that Saddam Hussein had no WMD stockpiles and had not built any since 1992, but that he intended to restart the weapons program following the elimination of UN sanctions.\"","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2890,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/01\/30\/new-year-new-computer\/","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":2},"title":"New Year, New Computer","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally upgraded to a new computer running Windows 7!","rel":"","context":"In "personal"","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The system properties window from \"Yotsuba,\" my new computer!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/01\/system-properties-window-windows-7-300x282.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":138,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/05\/26\/damn-penguins\/","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":3},"title":"Damn Penguins…","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been spending the better part of the last two weeks struggling with penguins. 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