[starwind]

You can freeze the worknumber so people running background checks can't get information. When I changed jobs the company ran a background check and they kinda freaked out cause they couldn't get anything out of this database. I loved it.

[Scoundreller]

Gartner has predicted by 2038, the average American will spend 17 hours per day opting out of things they never opted into.

[hedora]

Do they predict what percentage of trackers this continuous coke-filled click-fest will actually disable?

[TeMPOraL]

They did not, because the number wasn't estimated by adding up predicted time per tracker or service, but by determining this is about the maximum the market can bear - i.e. a steady state of the system.

Curiously, Stratfor also predicted 60% chance of the US going to war with the EU before 2036, due to EU privacy regulation threatening to shut down the increasingly adtech-based US economy.

[thechao]

This serious analysis is stupider than the entire plot of Idiocracy.

[bmitc]

I can’t tell if that’s a real report or something from The Onion.

[toomuchtodo]

“How to freeze your work number”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33212195

[MerelyMortal]

I would do the verification over email as that means they didn't typo whatever email you gave them (easier to typo an email address rather than a phone number).

[aSockPuppeteer]

You still need to email them two forms of identification (personal ID and mailing address) then it takes three days.

[landemva]

I wonder if security of the payroll data lookup is even worse than the credit report website. A 'freeze' may be worthless if the data leaks are large. And a person making $18/hour to do child support case management may interested in making extra cash by looking up other people for a fee.