A Texas company called Datamasters was selling a list of 435,245 people with Alzheimer’s disease. Names. Home addresses. Phone numbers. Email addresses. All packaged up and available to anyone with a credit card.
Alzheimer’s patients. The people most vulnerable to financial exploitation and online scams on the planet. For sale. That’s atrocious.
But that wasn’t all. Datamasters also sold records on 2,317,141 blind or visually impaired people, 133,142 addiction sufferers, 857,449 people with bladder control issues and “Hispanic lists” with over 20 million names. They sold lists of seniors and people with high-interest mortgages (aka people likely struggling financially), as well as 3,370 “Consumer Predictor Models” that could tell buyers your probable political affiliation, spending habits and nonprofit donations. 🎯 This made me furious
Alzheimer’s patients are especially vulnerable to financial scams. Criminals know it. Investigators found scammers buying lists from data brokers specifically to target people who can’t fight back. How do they sleep?
These aren’t mailing lists for coupons. They’re target lists for predators.
You probably assume HIPAA protects your health information. It doesn’t. Not here. HIPAA only applies to health care providers and insurers. Data brokers sit completely outside those rules. There is no federal law stopping a company from collecting the fact that your mom or dad has Alzheimer’s and selling it to a stranger.
The fine California hit them with? $45,000. Datamasters’ database covers 231 million people. Do the math. That’s a fraction of a penny per person. 🔒 Lock it down
Most Americans don’t have California’s protections. If anyone in your family has a health condition, a disability or a financial vulnerability, their information may already be sitting in a database like this one. Waiting to be sold.
The company got a $45,000 fine. Your family’s safety is worth more than that. 😰 Scammers don’t guess anymore
Scammers buy your name, home address, phone number, even your parents’ and kids’ names from data brokers for pennies, or less. Then they call pretending you owe money, your account’s been compromised or you missed jury duty. They sound convincing because they know everything about you.
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