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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records
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#12And... no one will go to jail.
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#13Is there a torrent yet? I want to lookup my own data.
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#14When will this stop? When's the last straw? If I gave a bank 100 dollars, and they lost it, I'd have avenues with which to pursue some sort of justice. If I give a company my data, and they lose it, oh well. I wish all personal data was treated like HIPAA, at a minimum.
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#15And, they made fun of RMS... He was telling you what the future holds. This is just a trailer of what is to come.
Information wants to be free. That includes information you don't want to be free.
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#16When will this stop? When's the last straw? If I gave a bank 100 dollars, and they lost it, I'd have avenues with which to pursue some sort of justice. If I give a company my data, and they lose it, oh well. I wish all personal data was treated like HIPAA, at a minimum.
> When will this stop? When's the last straw?
When the top folks in the US government are personally affected. Until then, "congressional hearings" and presidential ambivalence is the most action we'll get out of them. Most people don't really understand what the significance of these events are.
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#17What is the source of this data?
Without more information I can only assume they are scraping public records just like sites like Spokeo etc. Perhaps with some data analysis thrown in.
So I don't see much of a personal concern; especially since their business model appears to be selling this very data!
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#18> "I don’t know where the data is coming from, but it’s one of the most comprehensive collections I’ve ever seen"
> Each record contains entries that go far beyond contact information and public records to include more than 400 variables on a vast range of specific characteristics: whether the person smokes, their religion, whether they have dogs or cats, and interests as varied as scuba diving and plus-size apparel.
It might be "comprehensive" but is it comprehensive in a scary way? It's probably just 400 machine learning features that are estimating what people might like, so not necessarily super accurate?
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#19Every American's DNA was leaked and a malicious AI bot is making a customized oncovirus for each if they visit Washington, D.C. "Oops, our bad. Here's a coupon half-off Tamiflu."
Externalities of data breaches keep increasing.
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#20When will this stop? When's the last straw? If I gave a bank 100 dollars, and they lost it, I'd have avenues with which to pursue some sort of justice. If I give a company my data, and they lose it, oh well. I wish all personal data was treated like HIPAA, at a minimum.
> When will this stop? When's the last straw? When the top folks in the US government are personally affected. Until then, "congressional hearings" and presidential ambivalence is the most action we'll get out of them. Most people don't really understand what the significance of these events are.
I hate the fact that I feel so small and insignificant because of the futility of speaking to a representative. I did try to contact Rand Paul last year. He never bothered to reply, but did add me to his mailing list. Great.