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Wouldn't a GDPR request to Visa or MasterCard in the EU get me this data?
That's what I was thinking. Would be awesome for personal budgeting...
I think that the right title should be "Marketing Firm Exactis Exposed a Personal Info Database with with 340M Records on Internet". This is not a leak, at least there is no evidence of it yet. While this does not downplay this security "mishap", there is still big difference between "someone rob a bank" and "bank left their vaults open". OTOH, it would be interesting to know how did they get hold on such data.
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In America, they simply do not know the last 300 years of history.
Practically everyone knows about the second world war, but nothing is being done about rising fascism. It has nothing to do with not knowing, it's just stupidity.
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Same flawed logic as in online piracy. No one lost your data, they still have it, but someone else made a copy.
A rather irrelevant nitpick to this discussion. Let's not pretend we didn't know what lost meant in this context. And of course it's the process of making a copy that's the issue.
That emphasis is twofold: 1) they can do it again, because 2) they didn't lose anything.
The corollaries being that their incentives aren't aligned with the people whose data is leaked, the company don't need to spend on avoiding leaks because they're not harmed beyond a little (bad) PR.
"exposes" here is quite a strange term, because their entire business is selling that same data. The only difference is that it was briefly available without a price tag.
That assumes they would sell to absolutely any group including terrorists, hate groups and sanctioned countries. At least without the leak they have the option to refuse.
I think that the right title should be "Marketing Firm Exactis Exposed a Personal Info Database with with 340M Records on Internet". This is not a leak, at least there is no evidence of it yet. While this does not downplay this security "mishap", there is still big difference between "someone rob a bank" and "bank left their vaults open". OTOH, it would be interesting to know how did they get hold on such data.
Unusually for me I find your pedantry here too quibbling - even if the bank is left open taking the money is still theft (robbery is with threats/force in my jurisdiction, UK).
Do you use ad-blocker, vpn, private browsing, same on the phone too? All privacy settings in facebook, avoiging gmail and google? No?
At least teach your kids to.
A lot of people complained that GDPR was too onerous on small firms and that they should be exempt. According to LinkedIn https://ie.linkedin.com/company/exactis-llc Exactis has just 10 employees (obviously some error possible. Call it 15-20?) Now do you think small firms can’t hold large quantities of damaging data?
there is never any punishment for corporations. death's too good for them.