[Dataloss] Stolen Boeing laptop is recovered

[blitz]

As a thief, this would be one of the easiest way to "gather data" 
without having it changed / repported by the corporation.

Not only that, but he could then return it, even claim a reward, and 
profit even more. The company then reports, "It's been recovered!!! 
Hooray", we don't have to spend a lot of money and of course it 
wasn't accessed, so no reporting necessary, nor the costs of alerting victims.
In an appropriate time, data starts turning up, and people start 
getting victimized, and not being alerted on the first occurrence, 
they're in a quandary of how their PII got into the hands of the 
criminal-class.

I suspect this occurs a LOT, and contributes to difficulty of legal 
tracking and consumers rights being avenged in a court of law, but 
hey, what the hell, like Scott McNeily of Oracle said, "You have no 
privacy, get over it!"
What he fails to mention is he and his minions are profiting 
handsomely from violating your privacy, massively.

Its going to take REAL privacy legislation, even better than what the 
EU has, and a few Corporate clones doing some hard time before they 
will take it seriously. As I've said for so long, there's entirely 
TOO MANY faceless, shadowy corporations keeping our most personal 
information on file and for what reasons, not disclosed to us.
They should be put out of business, period, and the remaining ones 
should be operated under Draconian privacy measures, including full 
access by the citizenry to check and dispute entries with the power 
of the law on the citizens side!

Marc




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