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 Experian
Why you can’t easily see, freeze, or delete your LexisNexis file
The outrageous “roller coaster incident” that broke a man’s insurance rating
How U.S. privacy laws fail to protect your data — and why you’re still the product
Plus: 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.
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Chapter Breaks
00:00 – Cold Open: The roller coaster that broke his insurance
00:20 – “There’s a company tracking your life — and it’s not Equifax”
01:25 – The Big Three vs. the unseen fourth: LexisNexis
03:44 – How LexisNexis profiles you: social, insurance, driving, and debt
05:34 – The invisible rules: Not a credit bureau, not regulated
07:36 – Frank’s nightmare: trying to request your LexisNexis file
09:29 – “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 exposed
15:34 – Privacy vs. necessity: the cost of living in a connected world
17:22 – Capitalism, democracy, and the right to your own data
19:44 – “It just hasn’t made you upset yet”: why no one fights back
20:48 – 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 disaster
29:44 – The limits of AI — and why you’ll always need humans
31:17 – Machine learning déjà vu in cybersecurity
32:13 – Cloud, costs, and the AI uncanny valley
33:37 – Wrap-up: The real threat behind the “shadow credit bureau”
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