Byline: Daniel Wolfe
As Seen On TV
Personal data is showing up for sale on YouTube.
A video excerpted in msnbc.com's "The Red Tape Chronicles" column on Thursday features a man displaying file folders in his car and offering sets of consumer records for $25 each, or five for $100.
"These records include the following: Name, sex of the individual, Social Security number of the individual, mother's name, their current street address," the salesman says in the video. He also mentions license numbers, birth dates and other personal details.
The YouTube salesman said the information could be used for marketing, though Bob Sullivan wrote in the Red Tape column that the data "would give an identity thief all the information they'd need to wreak havoc with a victim's credit report and, probably, their financial life."
Sullivan speculated that the file folders came either from an office or …
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