Vbeacher Vbeacher:
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I pay cash. Doesn't stop Equifax though. I'm a bit opponent of their business model, simply from a privacy standpoint.
You paid cash for your house? Your car?
Yes, and yes. I inherited my previous house, and paid cash for my current one. I usually pay cash for my cars, but if I don't, I don't give them my SIN. That number is for government use only, so that's only who I give it to.
Vbeacher Vbeacher:
$1:
No, they have very little of my data. They have my name, DOB and SIN.
And address, and income, family information, in some cases drivers license, the names of your previous employers...
Nope. Privacy laws prevent them from keeping any data not related to paying you your paycheque. Bank account, current employer, amount. Nothing more.
Vbeacher Vbeacher:
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Nope. And banks don't know what I buy, anymore than the grocery store knows my bank account details. Interac cards carry no personal information, unless they are embossed with your name. Mine isn't.
The computer knows everything you buy on your debit/credit cards. In the former case it might only be a cash amount, but it's attached to a code back at the store you bought it, and those accounts can be accessed
Nope. The protocols involved with an Interac transaction are not traceable beyond amounts and confirmations. The store might have a confirmation code, but they do not have access to the customer or account information about who bought it, just like the bank does not have access to what was purchased, beyond the total. Credit cards are a different story, but I wasn't writing about those.
Vbeacher Vbeacher:
$1:
Data analysis and threat mitigation are my job. Trying to bait me or whatever you are trying to do won't be successful.
Why would I try to bait you? I don't know you from Adam. I'm simply pointing out that for the vast, vast majority of people, worrying about the 'guberment' getting hold of privacy information is ludicrous. These same people happily give all their information out in exchange for a free app on their phones, and the rest of their data is widely stored in any number of files which are probably not nearly as carefully protected as people would like to think.
Some people like that sort of thing, and I don't know you from Adam. I already know people freely give their data away, but that ship sailed. It is still possible to prevent the 'superdatabase' that Bill C-51 envisions, that was killed back in the 90's, from becoming reality. Government can still be influenced!
Vbeacher Vbeacher:
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I've been in this profession too long to fall for conspiracy BS, false information and half truths. The truth is actually scarier that you might know.
What conspiracy BS, false information or half truths have I posted?
Above, with you claiming that Interac transactions are trackable, as well as telling me things that I already know as though I'm new or something.
Vbeacher Vbeacher:
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On a daily basis, me and my colleagues keep the bad guys out of the Governments' tax files. And you know how we do that?
Uhm, you don't. I'm pretty sure CRA STILL can't say for a certainty they've cleared out the Chinese government hackers who shut them down a couple of years back. And then there's the simple expedient of having your girlfriend join CRA as a clerk - as the Hells Angels did, or simply bribing people in CRA.
I basically assume that the Chinese, Russians, Americans, and for all I know the North Koreans have full and complete access to everything on every government of Canada computer, and read Trudeau's emails before he gets them.
I don't work at the CRA. And odds are, they don't have hackers in them either. Believe it or not, many of us are actually competent at our jobs, and we account for every byte of data going into and out of our systems. We also don't put sensitive information on the Internet, and transfer data between departments on closed networks that have no internet access.
Vbeacher Vbeacher:
$1:
Why do you think I post here, using a proxy and a Virtual Machine that I create every day then destroy at night?
Because you're a paranoid?
People called me that when I described the 'Carnivore' program back in the 90's. Then Edward Snowden showed us that it was far, far deeper than that. Then I didn't look so paranoid.
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