The Big Three have many non-credit-report products, and no they will not share them with the reports' subjects (you and I).

That was the point of Horizon Worlds. They were trying a (very expensive) social play for VR.

The problem is that the intersection/suitability of VR and social media is rather low, while as a counterexample the intersection of mobile and social media is very large. I have no desire to chat with old classmates when I "suit up" with VR goggles, I'm there to game.

I work on products that feature live monitoring capabilities. There's no connection to the monitoring side's microphone (or camera) — why would there be? I'm not sure why there would be for their products.

Whatever the cause, it sure sounds like it was a strange and unnerving experience.

Repossessing cars isn't societally harmful, quite the opposite in fact.

If it was not possible or even just much harder to repossess a car, lenders would be much less willing to grant loans to people in order to buy a car.

What are you saying? Do you think my claim was that all US research programs have closed up shop?

No search results for "Salt Typhoon" as the query. This nation really is fucked.

Some are installed by private entities. Home Depot installs Flock cameras in their parking lots.

I assume their primary use case is combating organized retail theft rings, as companies like Target spend a great deal on this problem (to include famously having their own accredited crime lab).

Billionaires For Bush did it first, and better.

Here, among other vendors:

https://southbendreplicas.com/

That's not true. They have millions of digitized 4473s. They are banned by law from creating a searchable registry of gun owners but they digitize paperwork on a daily basis.

https://medium.com/statute-circuit/the-atfs-quiet-digital-tr...

Thanks for the clarification. I knew there was limitation placed on them to hamstring their operations under the auspices of preserving the 2nd amendment.

Not all harm is physical.

What is the harm?