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Selling Other People's Identities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the information-trade dept.

joeflies writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has an extensive article on the controversial site Jigsaw, which makes it easy to sell other people's identity information. Jigsaw encourages people to collect business cards and email signature blocks, which is compiled together into a searchable database. Participants earn points towards their own searches or earn money. Is this exactly what Scott McNealy meant when he said electronic privacy is dead?"

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  1. Collaborative privacy destruction? by Boogaroo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, that's messed up.

  2. Make money fast! by edunbar93 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sell your soul! Hell, sell someone else's soul! We don't care! We at evilpeople.com, we will buy souls wholseale!

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    "No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
  3. So... by benplaut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How much is your name worth?
    How much is your soul worth?