Roma, Racism And Tabloid Policing: Interview With Gary Younge : rabble
[This case] shows the link between the popular and the state. This is tabloid journalism followed by tabloid policing. It’s also completely ignorant. I wrote my article on the Roma after covering the community for a week. I thought, “that’s interesting – there’s a range of phenotypes, ways of looking, that include Roma.” I mentioned two blonde kids by chance. I mentioned that Roma are more likely to speak the language of the country they’re in than Romani, more likely to have the religion of the country they’re in. But they have the basic aspect that is true for all identities – they know each other and other people know them. It’s not like I’m an expert on the Roma. I was covering them for a week and after the second day I knew Roma children had blonde hair and blue eyes. These people who took that kid away knew nothing. And on that basis they abducted a child.
(tags: roma racism ireland gary-younge tabloid journalist children hse gardai)
Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service
This is what happens when you don’t have strong controls on data protection/data privacy — the US experience.
While [posing as a US-based private investigator] may have gotten the [Vietnam-based gang operating the massive identity fraud site Superget.info] past Experian and/or CourtVentures’ screening process, according to Martin there were other signs that should have alerted Experian to potential fraud associated with the account. For example, Martin said the Secret Service told him that the alleged proprietor of Superget.info had paid Experian for his monthly data access charges using wire transfers sent from Singapore. “The issue in my mind was the fact that this went on for almost a year after Experian did their due diligence and purchased” Court Ventures, Martin said. “Why didn’t they question cash wires coming in every month? Experian portrays themselves as the data-breach experts, and they sell identity theft protection services. How this could go on without them detecting it I don’t know. Our agreement with them was that our information was to be used for fraud prevention and ID verification, and was only to be sold to licensed and credentialed U.S. businesses, not to someone overseas.”
via Simon McGarr(tags: via:tupp_ed privacy security crime data-protection data-privacy experian data-breaches courtventures superget scams fraud identity identity-theft)