Data Breach

[93Regina]

Anything via social media, newspaper stories, etc., that "surveillance capitalism" can acquire, they are collecting it, plus your credit track record. There are about "2,500 to 4,000 other data brokers that are collecting, storing, and selling information about you."

Good overview here:

As Equifax Amassed Ever More Data, Safety Was a Sales Pitch
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"Data breaches are on the rise. Be prepared," the company said in one
pitch. "You’ll feel safer with Equifax."

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From birth to death, the record grows.
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Equifax’s records on any given individual, scattered throughout dozens
of databases, typically stretch across hundreds or thousands of pages.

[93Regina]

Over in Europe, meanwhile

The Data Tinder Collects, Saves, and Uses

Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show
users what information they have on them when requested. This author
requested, and this is what she received:

Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my
Facebook "likes," my photos from Instagram (even after I deleted the
associated account), my education, the age-rank of men I was
interested in, how many times I connected, when and where every online
conversation with every single one of my matches happened...the list
goes on.

"I am horrified but absolutely not surprised by this amount of
data," said Olivier Keyes, a data scientist at the University of
Washington. "Every app you use regularly on your phone owns the same
[kinds of information]. Facebook has thousands of pages about you!"

As I flicked through page after page of my data I felt guilty. I
was amazed by how much information I was voluntarily disclosing: from
locations, interests and jobs, to pictures, music tastes and what I
liked to eat. But I quickly realised I wasn't the only one. A July
2017 study revealed Tinder users are excessively willing to disclose
information without realising it.

[93Regina]

Remember

Schneier on Security - On the Equifax Data Breach
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It's not just Equifax. It might be one of the biggest, but there are
2,500 to 4,000 other data brokers that are collecting, storing, and
selling information about you -- almost all of them companies you've
never heard of and have no business relationship with.

Surveillance capitalism fuels the Internet, and sometimes it seems
that everyone is spying on you.