The Single Greatest Chart Ever (At Least if You Want to Know Where Your Personal Information Goes)

[Celtic Raven]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report (PDF) on Wednesday that provides an outstanding start on describing the problems of data collection both on and offline.

Buried in that FTC report is a small gem: On pages 107 and 108 is Appendix C, a chart prepared by technologist Richard Smith which conveys all of the personal information collected about all of us and where it goes.



In concentric circles it explains the information ecology and reminds us that the flow of information about every one of us is largely unregulated.

Original Pdf chart opens to fullsize.
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[Mimosa]

1. Amazing. (We need the ACLU now more than ever.)

Before it's too late.

[avaistheone1]

2. I couldn't agree more.

Now this is frightening to me.


k&r

[Celtic Raven]

5. Card carrying member here

Anyone tracking me will find my name on the right lists.

[Hissyspit]

3. "The Conversation"

Francis Ford Coppolla (1974)

Also, "Hackers"

[Kaleko]

4. We're transitioning from the consumer age to the information age.

With the help of Wikileaks and the innumerable offshoots it will hopefully inspire, the helpless worker/slaves will have a fighting chance in this major struggle for a transparency that must not be allowde to be one-sided in favor of our corrupt corpo-governments.

*edited for clarity.

[valerief]

6. So like our medical info goes to Healthcare Analytics which sends

data to the Media and Marketers. Our medical info also goes to Affiliates (of whom?) who sends the data to Product & Service Delivery and to Marketers.

And our financial info goes to Credit Bureaus and on to Employers and Banks. It also goes to those stealthy Affiliates who send the data to Product & Service Delivery and to Marketers.

Well, I'm so glad marketers have so much of my medical and financial information. Where would I get my junk mail and identify theft risks without the marketers?

So where's the NSA in this?