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Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by YeBanKo »

marfil wrote: post #68
cycomanic wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes the US perspective of things is completely surreal for me as a European. In a country where you can buy assault rifles with minimal background checks, people worry about addresses being available because someone might be able to look up the address to kill them with a drone and a home made bomb.

As a European who has been living in the US for a decade, yeah, you're pretty spot on. Americans are a scared people, probably the most scared I've ever seen. Afraid of the gov't, the neighbors, and random people they don't even know. I've gotten a ton of hate as a foreigner and I am not surprised a hateful, greedy and selfish population like here is afraid somebody will take them out with an improvised device.

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Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by moandcompany »

swells34 wrote: post #26
akira2501 wrote: post #20

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Service members are uniquely vulnerable. They are employed by the government which makes them a target of hostile foreign powers, and they're often ordered to give away their personal information while in service often out of habit and not out any genuine need to have the service members SSN.

All very correct, and to add to this as someone who's had direct consequences due to my information being sold: we have more sensitive personal information, and that information is more sensitive than that of an average civilian. The holy Grail of documents is the DD-214, which has every single piece of sensitive personal information a civilian has, all in one place, and we are REQUIRED to keep it indefinitely, to pr…

The SF-86 used in the US security clearance background investigation process is very personal information dense...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Form_86

The OPM data breach (2015) affected service members, civilian government employees, and other civilians

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by marfil »

slingnow wrote: post #90
marfil wrote: post #72

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Oh no, don't get me wrong, I've been dying to leave, nothing I would like more. But I am sure you've heard of the term economic slavery, and that's what I have become. Don't make enough to make the ends meet, and don't make enough to leave. Have to pay the debts before I can give up the passport.

You poor soul. Moved to such a terrible nation full of those awful people you described and now you seem to be completely powerless to leave. And I'm 100% sure this is everyone elses fault. At what point do you look inward for someone to blame for your circumstances?

I was forced to move here when my parent got married. Never wanted to come here, didn't have a choice, tried to like it and I don't think that's humanly possible. Don't be a dick.

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by justrealist »

marfil wrote: post #72
justrealist wrote: post #69

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And yet, you live here. Annals of revealed preferences.

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I've been dying to leave, nothing I would like more. But I am sure you've heard of the term economic slavery, and that's what I have become. Don't make enough to make the ends meet, and don't make enough to leave. Have to pay the debts before I can give up the passport.

Debt does not stop you from leaving, if you have a second passport.

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by gottorf »

jjkeddo199 wrote: post #88
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #75

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Not American, and curious about the checks required for different weapons. I get lot of contradictory information online. Also read in many places buying illegally is easy. How true is that?

Buying legally in the US isn't that hard to make it worth it to buy illegally unless you are a broke teenager buying one to try and "look cool and tough" to your friends.

> unless you are a broke teenager buying one to try and "look cool and tough

Or unless, of course, you're a criminal who is forbidden from legally buying a gun.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

oaththrowaway wrote: post #61
cycomanic wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes the US perspective of things is completely surreal for me as a European. In a country where you can buy assault rifles with minimal background checks, people worry about addresses being available because someone might be able to look up the address to kill them with a drone and a home made bomb.

Curious what you define as "minimal background checks" and "assault rifles" as

in most states someone who has multiple assault violations and a history of mental health problems can walk into a gun show with $700 and 15 minutes later walk out with a semi-automatic AR-15

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by [deleted] »

YeBanKo wrote: post #91
marfil wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European who has been living in the US for a decade, yeah, you're pretty spot on. Americans are a scared people, probably the most scared I've ever seen. Afraid of the gov't, the neighbors, and random people they don't even know. I've gotten a ton of hate as a foreigner and I am not surprised a hateful, greedy and selfish population like here is afraid somebody will take them out with an improvised device.

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Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by micromacrofoot »

wutwutwat wrote: post #41
fusslo wrote: post #35

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are explosives as easy to get as bullets & guns where you live?

Wait until someone puts a gun on a drone and shoots up a concert from states away, or another country...

we're not talking about UAVs here though, someone needs to configure the drone very locally

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Post by asix66 »

What ever happend from John Oliver's privacy exposé last year? [0]

Seems he was going to submit a docket of info collected on congress people which was supposed to nudge actions towards regulating data broker collections and online privacy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by oaththrowaway »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #96
oaththrowaway wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious what you define as "minimal background checks" and "assault rifles" as

in most states someone who has multiple assault violations and a history of mental health problems can walk into a gun show with $700 and 15 minutes later walk out with a semi-automatic AR-15

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