Porn in the USA
IBill, the predominant billing company in the turgid adult payment service industry has leaked customer information across the Internet. Fraud artists and spammers got the personal information of over 17,000,000 users.
They were probably hacked and Wired news reports that credit card numbers don't seem to be included in the data, although most everything else is.
That's still a pretty big number. There's so many levels to view this on. From one perspective, that's a lot of people viewing porn. From another, that's a surprisingly large amount of people that are paying (big bucks) for access, questioning the commonly held notion that free porn is widely accessed on the Net. From the privacy perspective, this is absolutely appalling and it's a shame that it had to be the porn industry that got caught. I guarantee that if the 700 club's financial servers got hacked, this would be front page news and there would be a major FBI investigation.
But alas it's porn. I'm sure that conventional wisdom among legislators is that porn consumers deserve what they get or don't get.
When will Congress hold the custodians of personal information responsible for data breachs?
Posted on March 15, 2006
