Unfortunately there is a sliding wedge from Governments/corporation to extort more and more personal private information.
Can anyone tell me what a copy of a marriage certificate for a marriage that expired long ago will do to identify me or stop money laundering? The credit card company collecting the monies (actually currency)from my paid substack subscribers decided they needed my marriage certificate to verify who I was??????????????
Rather than give them information they had no business knowing and for that matter proved nothing (the ex has been dead for 8 years doubt even if she were alive she would have admitted we were married), I opted to drop the paid subscriber option. Spent much of yesterday morning trying to extract myself from the clutches of the credit card company Stripe, thought I had until they came back at me for more information so they could delete my account.
The whole episode has caused me to be even m ore adamant to provide as little as possible over the line when it comes to my personal privacy and security.
Long ago I decided I would not provide personal information over the internet to governments. They are too enticing a target for bad actors. Earlier this month not only did London Drugs report a hack but also the reported a hack.
It is important to remember with hacks that while the hacks that have been caught are a problem. It is the undetected hacks that have the potential to be a bigger problem.
If we don’t push back against the unnecessary intrusions into our privacy we will continue to lose our rights to privacy. Have to admit while I had about typical for paid compared to number of free subscribers my “financial cost” for dropping the credit card company was little more than a couple of coffee a month.
Governments and financial institutions are attractive targets for hackers, no matter what precautions are taken there is no such thing as an unhackable computer. At some time in the future online information you have supplied will be hacked. Have you already provided too much information?
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