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It's interesting that we consider this a leak only when the marketing firm loses the data. If we lived in a just society we would consider it a leak once the marketing firm got the data.
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> 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.
> When the top folks in the US government are personally affected The OPM breach covered a lot of powerful senior people.
“In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify you via email • Within 7 business days We will notify the users via in-site notification • Within 7 business days We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.”
There is currently 904.8 TB of data available on Internet-exposed Elastic clusters. Here is an overview of where these servers are located: https://www.shodan.io/report/yhaN9gje
It's interesting that we consider this a leak only when the marketing firm loses the data. If we lived in a just society we would consider it a leak once the marketing firm got the data.
More and more this just feels like the modern crisis of capitalism. The declining rate of profit is so extreme that we have to institute a corporate marketing panopticon designed to sell you shit you don't need, to the extent we're willing to risk that panopticon leaking dangerous information to non-state actors that could lead to theft, extortion, or worse. And we're not even beginning to think about what this can b…
"Big data" was crucial to the operational efficiency of the Holocaust
"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.
Shell companies and fronts are a great workaround for that.
How do you know who they sell to? And then, after it's been sold the first time, how do you know where the copies of that data are being sold to by the buyer?
Turtles all the way down.
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Let's hope they were the first to discover it.
I hope they were not and this data ends up public. I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them.
Who defines "privacy-violating"? Jumping into the mud because you feel aggrieved just makes you look like a pig.
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The credit card info is called "level 3 data" and they in some cases have line item by line item detail. Not just "spend $24.89 at Meijer store #349" but each individual thing, e.g. you bought 2 avocados.
How does this work with Apple Pay, which doesn't tell the retailer who the consumer is? Does the retailer sell the info, or the credit card company?