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New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities
phaedrus5001 writes "Ars has an article about two New Jersey DMV employees who have been accused of selling personal information they routinely had access to. The NJ prosecutor's office claims (PDF) their investigation 'uncovered that two employees of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission were providing the names, addresses, dates of birth and social security numbers of unsuspecting residents that they obtained through their employment. They were charging as little as $200 per identity.'"
I bet there are a whole SLEW of Psychiatrists that would just LOVE to learn their methodology for making identities!
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
I wouldn't pay more than $200 to be from New Jersey, either!
50,000 characters used to live here.
Because a private company would never be caught doing something like this. Nope. They are all completely above any kind of corruption.
If the person cared about others they wouldn't be working at the DMV.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
You have to stand in line for hours just waiting to get the CD with the data on it. And don't get me started on all the forms you have to fill out!
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Obviously the government shouldn't know your Social Security number...
Yes, and our roads will be awesome when any asshole can just hop into a car and put the pedal on the floor....
You haven't driven in Boston, have you?
We needed a universally unique personal identifier. Only the feds could actually create one, and the SSN is the only one they ever got political consensus to create.
The real problem is treating it as both identification and authentication.
Three ID's for Credit Reporting Agencies under the sky,
Seven ID's for Three Letter Agencies in their halls of stone,
Nine ID's for each system you log on to.
One ID for the DHS on it's dark throne,
In the Land called DC, where the shadows lie.
One ID to rule them, One ID to find them
One ID to normalize the database and in the darkness bind them.
In the land called DC where the shadows lie.
(Apologies to just about everyone)
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!