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Daily Dashboard | The Feds: Data Brokers’ Next Big Customer Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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CNN reports on one commercial data broker “that tracks and stores the employment and salary information of millions of Americans” and its “big, new customer—the federal government.” The U.S. government is now using The Work Number, a database owned by Equifax that includes “54 million active salary and employment records and more than 175 million historical records,” in a pilot program aimed at determining eligibility for such benefits as food stamps, a World Privacy Forum report has found. The World Privacy Forum is pointing out privacy concerns, including that commercial databases such as this “do not have to meet the same strict privacy and accuracy standards that government-operated databases do,” the report states.
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