leading data brokering company with one of the largest commercial database on consumers in the world is Acxiom Corporation. This 9 Little Rock - based company, according to its executives has about 1500 data points for each of about 500 million consumers worldwide (10% of world population); in order to manage all data they have (as the  20 company is gathering and using data since the ’80s, when they upset direct marketing with computerized advanced analytics across massive datasets) they tried to improve the algorithms to segment population (by age, location, etc...). Acxiom is “specialised” in database marketing, more precisely in people- based marketing (engage consumers with relevant messages). According with their …show more content…
InfoUSA controversy One of the biggest concerns and problematics of data brokering is the fact that it is hard to know to whom data is sold and how buyers will use it. In fact, this may lead to purchasers using bought informations for criminal purposes. In 2007 the New York times reported 12 that infoUSA, a data brokering company, sold lists about old vulnerable people (such as “old people looking for ways to make money” or “suffering seniors dealing with cancer or Alzheimer’s”) which are more likely to be naive and/or credulous, and the purchasers used those lists for fraudulent purposes. For example a 92 years old man was duped into revealing his banking data to  25 unknown people telephoning him, and who then emptied his bank account without his authorization. Once his family noticed this it was anyway hard to understand how it was possible, thanks to the old man memory being faulty. Old people also are “good victims” as they often tend not to tell anything to the police due to their fear of being brought to the hospice, and not wanting their family and sons to be worried about their mental
On this 9/3/15 worker visited the residence of Mr. Alvin Higgins, for the purpose of making first victim contact. Mr. Greg Nunn, RN with New Beacon Hospice greeted worker outside of the residence. Mr. Nunn stated he called the residence about 3 1/2 hours before arriving and Ms. Betty Griffith was not home. However, her daughter Gina Craven and her boyfriend, Kenneth Woods was at the home. When he arrived, the door was unlocked and Mr. Higgins was lying in his bed located in the living room. After being there for several minutes, Mr. Woods came into the living room and asked if he needed anything. Mr. Nunn told him no and Mr. Woods walked toward the back of the house. Medically Mr. Higgins diagnoses are late stage Alzheimer's. He is bedbound, hard of hearing, and unable to communicate.
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If someone asked you to put yourself and your career on the line, would you? Even if you knew that your reputation would be ruined? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee a lawyer named Atticus Finch is asked to defend a negro man: Tom Robinson. It's the early 1930s and The Great Depression is in full swing. Atticus Finch, a middle aged lawyer agrees to take on the case of a black man who has been accused of a rape against a white women, despite knowing the fact that it's taboo.
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ACO, another 3 letter health care organization consisting of integrated groups of providers, comes along promising the elusive goal of reducing health care cost, improving population health, and bolstering custom satisfaction. Sounds like a perpetual remake of a 70s movie called HMO that went through several reiterations over the past decades which gave us PPO, PSO, IDS, and the different flavors of MCOs. ACO’s hype is credited to the Affordable Care Act as it sought to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks that coordinate patient care and become eligible for bonuses when they deliver that care more efficiently. Bottom line, providers are promised to make more if they
These extremely large data sets may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations relating to human behavior and interaction. These analysesaffect us on day to day basis positively and negatively and the legality of how this information is collected and the laws that apply may be unclear. Both with or without users' knowledge, consumer personal data is collected from every daily, digital activity; from purchases, web searches, amazon searches, browsing history, and phone use. This data is generated, and then downloaded and stored. [15] Companies can then use this data to create "data sets" or large files of users' data to produce customer profiling. This data can also be used by police, the governmental bodies, scientists, businesses, military, and other industries where occasional breaches of data are expected .[16] Breaches and leaks of personal information including phone calls, credit card information, home address, and personal phone numbers are examples of information that is logged and stored by these corporations while making "data sets". Much of this information is being processed and sold to marketers for the purpose of marketing their products. This information is stored digitally and in some cases, regardless of the security of the information being stored, there are risks of unauthorized parties
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Firstly, financial abuse is defined as the illegal or improper use of funds or assets that do not belong to oneself (British Columbia Law Institute, 2011). In a NBC article by Herb Weisbaum (2011), he talks about why the elderly become targets of financial abuse, “Con artists also prey on older people, because as a group they control a tremendous amount of this country’s wealth. And in many cases, poor health — both physical and mental — makes them easy targets for financial predators” (para.
For example, depending on your employment status or medical situation, you may need very different kinds of assistance from other older adults you know. Some salespeople may even use scare tactics or other below-the-board strategies to pitch their plans, such as free lunch seminars or false claims of being affiliated with a government
With data and the collection of it, comes the added need for security. To begin to understand how we need to secure the data we collect we need to understand a few aspects of the
There is no doubt that many elderly individuals will eventually need assistance with managing their finances, which includes making purchases on their behalf. Thus the older adult may provide their caregiver with cash, cheques and in some cases they may implement a power of attorney. Essentially, powers of attorney grant considerable power to named individuals, over both finances and property. Unfortunately, over time what evolves is an over spending of the older adults money solely benefiting the caregiver, moreover, these caregivers begin to develop a sense of entitlement (Gibson & Honn Qualls, 2012, p. 27). When considering financial abuse committed by strangers, many simple scams against older adults have surfaced over the years. For example, individuals may offer handyman services, recognizing that many older adults struggle with chores such as exterior window washing. However once paid, the individuals do not return to complete the job. It is interesting to note that of all reported elder abuse cases, financial abuse makes up more than half of all complaints (Friese & Collopy, 2010, p. 60).
When it comes to love stories in mythology, most people assume that the god Eros (also known as Cupid) and the goddess Aphrodite (also known as Venus) are behind the stories. However, most of the stories barely involve Eros and Aphrodite in their stories. There are more gods besides Eros and Aphrodite that help symbolize love by their actions in the stories of love. Even though Aphrodite and Eros are the main deities associated with love, several of the other Olympian gods are also agents of love.
A lot of people share common misconceptions about window tinting, and some of the things you believe about it might be just a myth. To shed light on them, this article will discuss the common fallacies surrounding window tinting and unveil the truth.
Personal data is quickly becoming a commodity in today's high technology world. This information is used by banks, investment and brokerage companies, credit card merchants, government agencies (local, state and federal), and consumer product-based companies. Most people probably don't realize the amount of information that's shared between companies, or how often it's done. Many companies sell and share customer data to help sell products and find out what new products they should produce. Other uses include gathering information about inventory levels to help better determine what types of products are bought at which store, when and how often. This can be used for inventory and production, to make sure that the store (or
The level of which Baker knows his team varies from ‘word on mouth’ and reputation, from prior conflicts and to prior effective working relationships. Given that the group members don’t know each others well, and/or are competing, Baker will have a tougher task to bring the team together