The ChoicePoint incident of theft of 145,000 person’s personal data caused Diane Feinstein (D-CA) to propose national law similar to california law. This would notify victims. Since this might not have been noticed immediately as not a network break in but bogus companies, I’d like to suggest one better: ALL requests from ANYONE buying personal info be logged to a central database. This way, people who saw their info being purchased for no reason could alert authorities. You’d be able to access this like requesting your credit report. Unlike your credit report, this would contain only an indication that your personal info had been purchased, not the personal info itself, except for identifying info. The govt could run this but I don’t trust the govt, would rather have private industry consortium run this, all companies that submitted data would pay to run this in proportion to the amount of data they submitted. They might have to leave off requests from law enforcement agents if verified from the report for on-going investigations so as not to tip off the criminals. What do you think?
