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The data that follows you

Chapter 2 of 5 · Section 3 of 12

Sections

1. Intro

  • 1. Agenda
  • 2. 2022 — a map, drawn by hand

2. The data that follows you

  • 3. You have a file you never opened
  • 4. The footprint is a threat model

3. From awareness to a machine

  • 5. Find, dispute, delete, prove
  • 6. Dispute — an attorney on the report
  • 7. Delete — a client can only ask
  • 8. The trust boundary is structural

4. Access to justice at product scale

  • 9. Operated by the Foundation
  • 10. Prove it without disclosing it

5. Wrap Up

  • 11. Delete your data
  • 12. Resources
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You have a file you never opened

Data brokers, people-search sites, and tenant-screening bureaus assemble a file on you from public records and buy-and-sell feeds. It follows you into a loan, a lease, and a hire — and it is often wrong.

Presenter notes

For a security crowd this is familiar as an attack surface, but the everyday harm is quieter. A landlord runs a tenant-screening report and it carries someone else's eviction under your name; a lender pulls a consumer report with a record that should have aged off. You can lose the apartment before anyone reads your side. The file was assembled without you in the room, and the first time you learn what it says is the moment it is used against you. That asymmetry — they hold the data, you hold the consequences — is the thing the rest of this talk attacks.

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