>>Data points included : owner’s name, address, Social Security number, all credit card and other loan information and account balances, entire credit history, including delinquent payments, late payments, minimum payments, high account balances and credit scores. “Household demographic data,” including racial and ethnic data, gender, marital status, religion, education, employment history, military status, household composition, the number of wage earners and a family’s total wealth and assets.
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>>That really is scary stuff. It has to be unconstitutional. What can we do about it?
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>Why is that scary?
>Lots of people know all that information about me now and I'm glad they do.
>They can tailor their actions to me and avoid wasting their time and mine.
>I've never understood our fixation on privacy - especially medical privacy.
>If it were up to me, I'd have everyone in the world know my medical history- it might save my life.

That is your choice and all I ask is the same.
I'm an open book with my wife and my doctor.
Outside of them the details of my life are noone's business except those I choose to let in.

If you don't understand why it is scary, I would suggest that you are either ignoring or are choosing to be ignorant regarding abuses of power stemming from bits of information in the wrong hands throughout history. Small snippets of personal information can destroy people's lives, imagine the power of a vast trove of information on 2/3 of the country.