US Military Data: For Only 12 Cents Per Record
Datasets available around the world - someone is building a WORLD database. Count on it. (If they can't get it voluntarily, hacks and convenient security lapses will do.)
Source: Zero Hedge
Report on Commercially Available Data from 2022:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23844477/odni-declassified-report-on-cai-january2022.pdf
The Epoch Times reported that:
…Access to this data could be used by foreign and malicious actors to target active-duty military personnel, veterans, and their families and acquaintances for profiling, blackmail, targeting with information campaigns, and more,” the report warned. The information in the dataset included:
Personal details like name, home address, email, specific branch and/or agency (active duty only), wireless phone numbers, age, gender, ethnicity, language, occupation, and levels of education.
Family information like marital status, presence of children at home, numbers of children, ages of children, sexes of children.
Ideological information like political affiliation, religion, interest in charitable donations, interest in current affairs/politics.
Financial information like income, net worth, credit rating, homeowner/renter status, home value, and interest in gambling/casinos.
Medical details like ailments and health conditions.
“Several data broker websites advertise data on military families, with dataset titles such as ‘Military Families Mailing List’ and ‘Hard Core Military Families,’” the report said.
None of the datasets purchased by the team were anonymized, even when brokers provided sensitive information to unverified buyers.
The datasets cost between $0.12 and $0.32 per record when buying roughly 5,000 to 15,000 records at a time. [My emphasis]
Several year (early 2010?) ago, a .gov contractor "lost" all of our info for security clearance holders, and their families.