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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Massive data collected about consumers,
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Massive data collected about consumers, but unavailable to them
http://j.mp/SO7MIQ (New York Times)
It turns out that Acxiom, based in Little Rock, Ark., furnishes
consumers only with data related to risk management, like their own
prison records, tax liens, bankruptcy filings and residential
histories. For a corporate client, the company is able to match
customers by name with, say, the social networks or Internet providers
they use, but it does not offer consumers the same information about
themselves. Jennifer Barrett Glasgow, Acxiom's chief privacy officer,
said that the company kept consumer data in different databases and
that its system was not designed to assemble all the information it
had amassed on a single person. "We do not have the capability to
look up an individual's data in the system," Ms. Barrett Glasgow said.
"We don't have a search-by-name capability."
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