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Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America (Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism) by
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Camille
is on page 224 of 358
Reading about congressional hearings in the 1960s re: whyyy are credit agencies collecting hearsay, info about people's drinking habits, etc. Afterwards, credit agencies are mandated to provide free reports to individuals and give them clear mechanisms for correcting erroneous information. Interesting precedent for thinking about the right to be forgotten...
— Apr 22, 2018 09:15AM
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Camille
is on page 35 of 358
"It was not the welfare or protection of the state that spawned the first mass surveillance systems in the United States; it was the security of capitalism. Risk-taking merchants established their own "documentary regimes or verification" ahead of state-building bureaucrats. Many nineteenth-century Americans were legible economic actors before they were fully legible citizens"
— Nov 14, 2017 06:15PM
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