> Enter your email to check Uhhh this is definitely a scam
Agreed. I didn't enter my email during the census
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#42Re: 800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
#43It's asking for my email to check if my census data has been leaked? Email isn't even shown as a field in the leaked records. Is this site just harvesting emails?
don't think it's a scam. forbes covered it (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/20/stunning-...) although more neutrally than this title
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#44It's asking for my email to check if my census data has been leaked? Email isn't even shown as a field in the leaked records. Is this site just harvesting emails?
don't think it's a scam. forbes covered it ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/20/stunning-... ) although more neutrally than this title
Are we really still using Forbes as evidence? Forbes is blogspam. I need a much more credible source before handing over my email to this site.
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#45Techradar also posted about this leak
https://www.techradar.com/news/major-data-breach-exposes-dat...
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#46Re: 800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have been doing the census for hundreds of years and it seems to go pretty okay. If someone wants to map your name to your home address, they already have the voter registration database for that.
It's all the data that's not census data and the fact that it's joined with census data. Why is this data joined with tax information, calls to fire departments, and bike share information?
Because people use their real name as the primary key in almost every database? The census team did not steal Lyft's database and leak it.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's all the data that's not census data and the fact that it's joined with census data. Why is this data joined with tax information, calls to fire departments, and bike share information?
Because people use their real name as the primary key in almost every database? The census team did not steal Lyft's database and leak it.
Yes it's their fault for using their own name. It's not the fault of the people keeping creepy dossiers on random customers that creates this hazard.
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#49I am certain that this is a scam. After having worked extensively with Census data there is no place, AFAIK, that the Census Bureau collates mortgage, credit and tax data or has the capability to. The datasets listed here sit in 3 disparate organizations - IRS, private banks and credit bureaus. There exists no mechanism to collate it in one place - you would need releases from individuals to get the credit data. IRS data is almost impossible to get (cf: DJT tax records). Finally, mortgage records are public but payment history sits with the banks.