Data-Mining Your PrivacyHave you received a flood of offers for dog food and doggy deals! Your private information data-mined and sold to APHIS, zoning, or Animal Control?
June 12, 2020 update | TheDogPress.com Barbara "BJ" Andrews, Editor-In-Chief
In 2014 we alerted subscribers to the secret but wide-spread practice of data-mining private and personal information. Even then, AKC was taking in fewer dollars (ii AKC 2013 revenue, pension, and retirement summary) from registrations, pedigree sales, dog show fees, AKC credit cards, etc. It was believed that the American Kennel Club was offsetting the shortfall by selling your personal information to companies that market pet supplies or consumer information, a practice known as data mining.
Data-mining is big business on steroids. Judge Andrew Napolitano told Fox News that data brokers can legally harvest your email recipients and sell the list. You know the result as unwanted spam but there are other ways your private information is used. The Judge said privacy peddling is so bad that Europe passed legislation allowing users to “remove your footprint from the internet.” In 2020 we know that didn't work...
Data mining began when we were induced to give up private information in exchange for the grocery store “discount” received by presenting a keycard or member number at checkout. You unknowingly you sold your personal worth to save a few pennies.
What you buy, where you buy it, and your preference in wine, restaurants, shoes, edibles and entertainment is a valuable commodity. If it seems like a good tradeoff consider this…
If Animal Control, APHIS, or HSUS decides to inspect breeders in your area, they will have a list showing where you live and how many “dogs, cats and/or other small (mammals)” you own. Fines and/or fees can run in the thousands of dollars. Your animals can be confiscated and sold!
How did they find you? Odds are high that you unknowingly granted AKC, your veterinarian, groomer, dog food or pet supplies provider the right to sell your transaction records.
TheDogPlace.org observed in 2005 (before the APHIS rule) that AKC could subcontract breeder inspections. YOU are a marketable commodity. Like dog magazines buying lists from dog show superintendents, with far greater income and motivation, the Humane Society Of The U.S. or the USDA/APHIS can buy any list.
AKC’s database will even reveal whether or not the “puppy for sale” was born on your premises. Warning to “puppy back” co-owners - If you have five intact females included in that broad list of mammals you own (horse, cat, goat, the kid's pet rabbit), you are in violation of the APHIS rule and subject to inspection.
If you advertise a rabbit, hamster, etc., even in the local newspaper, you are even more likely to become part of a “universal” database. If you ship a puppy, kitten, ferret, etc. your information is automatically entered into the USDA database. APHIS can then access the database to compile an area-generated list of breeder-households to be inspected.
When your vet fills out a health certificate for the puppy (or frozen semen) you are shipping, you go in the federal database.
Is your financial transaction information shared with IRS? As a subscriber to TheDogPress, you know all about Internal Revenue Service Director Lois Lerner’s connection to HSUS.
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