Do data brokers such as USA Data raise privacy issues?

Data brokers do create privacy issues as they often have limited means of authenticating the information they amass about the consumer. Most concerning is their acceptable use policies, which have more to do with protecting the value of their data asset and less about the consumer's privacy. For these companies (unlike the credit reporting agencies) are largely unregulated and as such their business practices make it easier for the criminal element to steal a victims financial identity, which anyone who has had their identity stolen can tell you is a total infringement upon ones privacy.

Congress should take immediate action and bring some transparency to this unregulated practice of profiting from trafficking of our privacy.

Sean J. Kent