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Shadow Credit Bureau Exposed: How LexisNexis Tracks Your Every Move (Even Roller Coasters!)
Legitimate Cybersecurity Podcasts
32 minutes
1 month ago
Shadow Credit Bureau Exposed: How LexisNexis Tracks Your Every Move (Even Roller Coasters!)
What if your “credit score” wasn’t the full story?Frank and Dr. Dustin uncover LexisNexis, the massive data broker quietly collecting everything about you — from your social posts and insurance claims to your driving habits (even roller coasters count).💥 In this episode:The hidden company that knows more about you than Equifax or ExperianWhy you can’t easily see, freeze, or delete your LexisNexis fileThe outrageous “roller coaster incident” that broke a man’s insurance ratingHow U.S. privacy laws fail to protect your data — and why you’re still the productPlus: Taco Bell’s failed AI experiment & what it reveals about the limits of artificial intelligence📺 Watch to the end for a hilarious (and slightly terrifying) discussion on AI gone wrong — from 100,000 tacos to SOCs that might order them next.Subscribe for more Legitimate Cybersecurity deep dives — where we mix real-world cyber truths with humor, clarity, and brutal honesty.👉 Listen anywhere you get podcasts💬 Join the community: r/LegitimateCyber🎙️ Hosted by Frank Downs & Dr. Dustin BrewerChapter Breaks00:00 – Cold Open: The roller coaster that broke his insurance00:20 – “There’s a company tracking your life — and it’s not Equifax”01:25 – The Big Three vs. the unseen fourth: LexisNexis03:44 – How LexisNexis profiles you: social, insurance, driving, and debt05:34 – The invisible rules: Not a credit bureau, not regulated07:36 – Frank’s nightmare: trying to request your LexisNexis file09:29 – “It knows your driving habits — and it’s probably wrong”11:51 – Where’s the line for privacy, jobs, and mortgages?13:18 – Data pollution: Can you flood your profile with fake info?14:11 – OPM breach, lost privacy, and why we’ve already been exposed15:34 – Privacy vs. necessity: the cost of living in a connected world17:22 – Capitalism, democracy, and the right to your own data19:44 – “It just hasn’t made you upset yet”: why no one fights back20:48 – Data ownership: should we get paid for our data?23:10 – The last bipartisan law (and why it was about dogs, not data)27:22 – Hard left turn: Taco Bell’s AI disaster29:44 – The limits of AI — and why you’ll always need humans31:17 – Machine learning déjà vu in cybersecurity32:13 – Cloud, costs, and the AI uncanny valley33:37 – Wrap-up: The real threat behind the “shadow credit bureau”#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #lexisnexis #databrokers #ShadowCredit #ai #consumerprotection #privacyrights #infosec #legitimatecybersecurity