I only know of one way to stop people from using our personal information. We must make personal information like Social Security Number, Birth Certificate and data bases of information, property of the individual. You should control your private information. If someone or some company is caught with a Social Security Number of a person without that person’s permission, that person or company should pay a large fine, spend some time in jail and the data base destroyed. You should be able to require anyone with your information to notify you yearly as to why they have your information and who has had access to the information and you should be able to demand a fee from anyone or company that makes a profit from the use of your information(with your permission). It should be illegal for any company to require your personal information in order to do business with that company. You could give permission for a company to use a specific amount of your information like name and address for a mail order purchase and only for that one transaction. If you let anyone collect information on you, they must change any of the information to what you want it to say or they must destroy all your information in the data base. It is your information.