It is a BS, fact that scientists can perform precise mods to DNA it is very flattering, but random modifications to any DNA occurring at rates of 1,000,000,000,000,000 per second on this planet right now - it is "mutation" if you not aware. About 12 years ago as a student at university we played with crops by placing them under source of radiation in hope to trigger "useful" mutations, but even if you increase radiation level 100 times, you still need 10,000 years to go over mutations caused by background radiation on this planet that occurred naturally during plant's evolution span of 1mil years...
No it is not my responsibility to keep my financial or any other details private. I don't think this details are _private_ or _secret_ in first place, and in fact they are not. You give SSN to your employer, checks to your landlord address to a website when you order books. All of that information was NEVER MEANT TO BE SECRET.
It is clearly in corporate interests to convince people that keeping this data secret is their (customer's) responsibility - they can do more business faster this way. Only reason it works is that many corporations rely on data provided by agencies like Equifax. Credit agencies do not require company to provide solid proof of identity in case of non-payment, where for example for criminal cases identity of the offender taken very seriously.
Take an example - someone used your when buying a gun and kills someone with it. Perhaps you will be questioned, but you won't spend time in jail in this case right, you wouldn't even care because it is police responsibility to prove your guilt in this case, right? Now if I am your bank and I send a report to credit agency - everyone suddenly believe that that was you who did not pay those $5000 from credit card. No one will bother to clear your name if that was not you. You see where problem is?
Problem is that corporations built a world wide SYSTEM of financial institutions and corporations where interests and right of consumer like you are me simply IGNORED as soon as they can profit on us.
If someone steals money from my account it is totally up to bank to deal with it, I usually don't care and in only one occasion when something happened I got my money back in hours. Law should put all responsibility in these cases on thieves and companies who failed to verify identity. If companies and financial institutions would be held responsible for not validating customer's identities properly I guess identity fraud cases will drop dramatically. If they afraid to make few extra checks in fear of losing few customers why would others suffer? My grandmother used to say "Trusting people is just a romantic stupidity".
You must be kidding right? - Kasparov is not even Russian by nationality, he represents less than 0.2% of electorate in Russia. Multiple political parties tried to use him only because he is recognized as world's best chess player. So in real sense his role in Russian politics is one of the clown. It is partially his fault too because he always liked attention and that side of him turned out to be more powerful than logic:-(
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It is a BS, fact that scientists can perform precise mods to DNA it is very flattering, but random modifications to any DNA occurring at rates of 1,000,000,000,000,000 per second on this planet right now - it is "mutation" if you not aware. About 12 years ago as a student at university we played with crops by placing them under source of radiation in hope to trigger "useful" mutations, but even if you increase radiation level 100 times, you still need 10,000 years to go over mutations caused by background radiation on this planet that occurred naturally during plant's evolution span of 1mil years...
No it is not my responsibility to keep my financial or any other details private. I don't think this details are _private_ or _secret_ in first place, and in fact they are not. You give SSN to your employer, checks to your landlord address to a website when you order books. All of that information was NEVER MEANT TO BE SECRET. It is clearly in corporate interests to convince people that keeping this data secret is their (customer's) responsibility - they can do more business faster this way. Only reason it works is that many corporations rely on data provided by agencies like Equifax. Credit agencies do not require company to provide solid proof of identity in case of non-payment, where for example for criminal cases identity of the offender taken very seriously. Take an example - someone used your when buying a gun and kills someone with it. Perhaps you will be questioned, but you won't spend time in jail in this case right, you wouldn't even care because it is police responsibility to prove your guilt in this case, right? Now if I am your bank and I send a report to credit agency - everyone suddenly believe that that was you who did not pay those $5000 from credit card. No one will bother to clear your name if that was not you. You see where problem is? Problem is that corporations built a world wide SYSTEM of financial institutions and corporations where interests and right of consumer like you are me simply IGNORED as soon as they can profit on us.
If someone steals money from my account it is totally up to bank to deal with it, I usually don't care and in only one occasion when something happened I got my money back in hours. Law should put all responsibility in these cases on thieves and companies who failed to verify identity. If companies and financial institutions would be held responsible for not validating customer's identities properly I guess identity fraud cases will drop dramatically. If they afraid to make few extra checks in fear of losing few customers why would others suffer? My grandmother used to say "Trusting people is just a romantic stupidity".
You must be kidding right? - Kasparov is not even Russian by nationality, he represents less than 0.2% of electorate in Russia. Multiple political parties tried to use him only because he is recognized as world's best chess player. So in real sense his role in Russian politics is one of the clown. It is partially his fault too because he always liked attention and that side of him turned out to be more powerful than logic :-(