1. Data about me should be owned by me, not the entity that collects it.
2. Disseminating false info about a person should trigger a statutory defamation liability akin to statutory copy right infringement, where the person does not have to prove damages then expand the Credit Reporting laws to include all Information and force them to tell you who all they have sold or given that info to.
#2 would do the most, if we reform defamation to make it where if a credit reporting agency, or Google gets something wrong and tells someone else that wrong thing they are liable you would see a massive curbing of private information collection, and even more of it being up for sale.
2. Disseminating false info about a person should trigger a statutory defamation liability akin to statutory copy right infringement, where the person does not have to prove damages then expand the Credit Reporting laws to include all Information and force them to tell you who all they have sold or given that info to.
#2 would do the most, if we reform defamation to make it where if a credit reporting agency, or Google gets something wrong and tells someone else that wrong thing they are liable you would see a massive curbing of private information collection, and even more of it being up for sale.