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So in researching the assassin's father, I came across this article from USA Today. And it was interesting where they came up with their data on the father.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/07/14/trump-shooting-gunman-father-ar-15/74401175007/
It seems there is a private data broker called Eye4Fraud.com that is described as "a company that screens online purchases on behalf of e-commerce merchants for potential fraudulent activity". Well, that company got hacked last year and their data trove was posted to the dark web? Within that data was online transaction records of all sorts of purchases. Purchases that can be searched by credit card codes assigned to types of purchases. (Remember the codes all gun related transactions have been assigned by banks recently?)
And guess who decided to scoop up all that data for their activist purposes? By golly, none other than the [highlight=yellow]Southern Poverty Law Center[/highlight]. Who then ran the name of the shooter and his father and mother through that database to see what popped up. And they discovered that daddy had made a purchase back in 2020 from Botach. Further research from other data brokers showed daddy had also left a review 7 months ago on the website for a gun-reseller in Nevada called CashMyGuns.com
While none of this is nefarious,...it should point out to you that your transaction history is not nearly as private as you might think. If for whatever reason the SPLC wants to run your name through their database, what will pop up? Maybe you're thinking about running for some local office, and the opposition decides to ask the SPLC for your buying habit history. Are they gonna find your purchase records at GayMidgetPorn.com?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/07/14/trump-shooting-gunman-father-ar-15/74401175007/
It seems there is a private data broker called Eye4Fraud.com that is described as "a company that screens online purchases on behalf of e-commerce merchants for potential fraudulent activity". Well, that company got hacked last year and their data trove was posted to the dark web? Within that data was online transaction records of all sorts of purchases. Purchases that can be searched by credit card codes assigned to types of purchases. (Remember the codes all gun related transactions have been assigned by banks recently?)
And guess who decided to scoop up all that data for their activist purposes? By golly, none other than the [highlight=yellow]Southern Poverty Law Center[/highlight]. Who then ran the name of the shooter and his father and mother through that database to see what popped up. And they discovered that daddy had made a purchase back in 2020 from Botach. Further research from other data brokers showed daddy had also left a review 7 months ago on the website for a gun-reseller in Nevada called CashMyGuns.com
While none of this is nefarious,...it should point out to you that your transaction history is not nearly as private as you might think. If for whatever reason the SPLC wants to run your name through their database, what will pop up? Maybe you're thinking about running for some local office, and the opposition decides to ask the SPLC for your buying habit history. Are they gonna find your purchase records at GayMidgetPorn.com?
