Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service

realized writes "Experian — one of the three national U.S. credit bureaus — reportedly sold SSNs through its subsidiary, Court Ventures, to the operators of SuperGet.info who then offered all of the information online for a price. The website would advertise having '99% to 100% of all USA' in their database on websites frequented by carders. Hieu Minh Ngo, the website owner, was recently been indicted for 15-counts filed under seal in November 2012, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, substantive wire fraud, conspiracy to commit identity fraud, substantive identity fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and substantive access device fraud."

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Re:And, who has the Obamacare ID validation contra

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Actually, it was the GOP who initially dubbed PPACA "Obamacare."

While the term "Obamacare" reads as disparaging the paln to certain parts of the GOP base, the use of the term may prove detrimental to the GOP in future, if it works. Given that MA enacted the same general plan as "Romneycare" based on Heritage Foundation ideas, and that it's generally worked OK in MA, the association of (the potential success of) individual-mandate private healthcare with the Democrats means the GOP threw away a mimetic advantage. If they'd called it "Romneycare Redux" or something like that - which is to say, associated it with its initial instantiation - they'd have kept a connection to the GOP.

I'm not too concerned about it. While it's not perfect, it's not godawful, either, and I'm curious to see how it'll play out. I'm hoping it does, not out of ideology, but because I know too many people who have been wiped out by medical costs when insurance dropped 'em -