What's a dark, secret practice in your profession?

Have you ever started filling out a form for a quote on something, like an insurance website

or literally anything online, and then changed your mind and said,

No, I don't want to give them my personal information, and then abandoned the form before pressing submit?

If you think that stopped them from getting your personal info, it didn't.

Most companies looking to capture leads will capture your info in real time as you enter it into a form.

The Submit button is just there to move you to the next step, not to actually send your

information to the company. Pretty much all of the high-end handmade in Australia, jewelry in Australian stores, is made

at a secret factory in Bali.

All the clients have to show an established business and sign confidentiality agreements.

Customs broker here.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of customers and airshipments arrive into United States

territory.

The value of customs

entries entered every day is staggering. When we get licensed to be a customs broker, we're

trained and tested, not just on knowledge, but ethics. We even take a pledge to partner with

CBP to uphold the law and cooperate with them should we come across anything suspicious. Why so

much emphasis on this? Customs can't

actually screen everything coming in. I'm oversimplifying here, but CBP basically works on the honor

system. You file an entry saying what the shipman's is and they just take your word for it and release it.

This happens hundreds of thousands of times a day. Maybe at best customs could screen three to

seven percent of what's coming in. The rest of it's just waved through. I work at a county jail in

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