The Forrest Gump of Data Mining Saw It All

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Data brokers hoover up massive amounts of personal data -- public records, credit card transactions, social media, geolocation data -- and then synthesize it for their clients to use for things like advertising, risk assessment for insurance, or even law enforcement.
50% : Asher and his co-workers added still more search criteria: marriage and divorce records, bankruptcies, credit reports, gun licenses, voter registrations.
49% : But when that data is sold in aggregate to law enforcement, immigration or hospitals, it starts to matter.
48% : Asher, who himself had evaded charges for his role as a drug-smuggling pilot between the States and Central America in the 1980s, was focused on the potential for his data to help with law enforcement, especially for missing and exploited children, frequently donating his services, along with monetary contributions.

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