Recently, CCTV reporters showed the public a "magic service" open to everyone. In the online black market of personal information, you only need to provide your mobile phone number to traffickers, and you can find the most private personal information of the owner, covering the whole country.
The information that can be inquired includes not only traditional items such as identity and household registration, personal assets, house opening records, but also emerging items such as mobile phone call records, personal Alipay accounts, Didi taxi records, and online shopping delivery addresses. What is even more eye-opening is that you only need the mobile phone number to query the real-time positioning of the owner. All the personal information you can think of is on the dealer's business list.
These are even scarier than the previous media exposure that "700 yuan can buy an ID card". After all, you still need to provide your ID number.
A common scene in movies is a person sitting in front of a computer and typing on the keyboard, so all kinds of information about someone are presented on the screen. In the movie, it seems that all this can be done by top hackers. But here, an ordinary person can have these skills by surfing the Internet casually and contacting two strangers. This is not science fiction, but magic.
In fact, because information leakage is so common, Chinese people have gradually developed an itch-free realm. For example, if you buy a house, the decoration companies all over the world know your name, community and building number, so you hang up and say "I'm sorry" politely. In this world, people who illegally buy and sell personal information are legitimate, and those who are hurt are even embarrassed.
The leaked information has a precise direction. Call records correspond to operators, online shopping delivery addresses correspond to e-commerce, not to mention taxi records.
Not all information may be directly leaked by insiders of relevant institutions, but these corresponding institutions must take responsibility and take the initiative to check the channels of information leakage. To say the least, even if you can stand up and clear the suspect, you are also responsible. What we are seeing now is that CCTV reporters have reported the case, but no organization has taken the initiative to claim responsibility.
If the media exposes the horror of information leakage over and over again, it will not really change, but will improve the public's tolerance. This is really a sad thing.
Now technical strength, capital strength and local governments are all excited about big data. The first thing people do is to collect information quickly and on a large scale, but they ignore a principle: if you can't protect information, you are not qualified to collect information. The information in your hand is both a resource and a responsibility.
Big data that can't protect citizens' privacy is like a bomb. This kind of bomb is still "public" and criminals can use it at will at a small cost. If we speculate with the worst malice, we will find that there are more terrible things than telecom fraud, which has already become possible.