This data sounds like it could have been someone's copy of the voter file, the database political groups keep on every American who can vote. Versions of that file have leaked before. There's some speculation some of the leaks have been deliberate, to illegally avoid campaign finance laws.
800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
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#22Doesn't Google know who is using their services? Who paid?
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#23It's 800GB, not Gb. Original title has been replaced completely and used wrong units. Original is "Report: unidentified database exposes 200 million Americans" which is far more useful.
Why do people unnecessarily change titles like this?
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#24Doesn't Google know who is using their services? Who paid?
someone with a stolen credit card, probably
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#26> Enter your email to check Uhhh this is definitely a scam
Agreed. I didn't enter my email during the census
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#27First we are legally required to give them our info then they leak it
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
You make it seem like people should give up. Gotta fight somehow. Even by just deleting personal data, getting off Facebook and social media entirely. Google is tougher to get rid of though
Realistic, not giving up. You can't escape them. even if you do, your friends are on instagram, facebook. what are you gonna do? social distance yourself in a camp in the woods forever? you can mitigate, not avoid. but how do you avoid government data collection and (possible) data leaks like this?
No one can.
The radical solution is to understand that everything is out there, data brokers have collected and will sell everything you do.
We need to start demanding transparency. That's it. The whole solution. No business should be permitted to have data secured. Period. Hold whatever's needed for immediate transaction purposes, everything else gets WIPED.
Credit bureaus have already exposed us all. Open their databases, no more secured storage allowed. They can dump their data or accept responsibility 100% for every field they hold onto.
Every other company can follow suit. Every government can follow suit. No more black ops, CIA, FSB, any intel security. No more separate government databases for each department or program, just one open cluster of everybody's info.
Screw corporate trade secrets and copyright and every other protection. Open every database and every server everywhere.
It'll take maybe a generation or two to adjust to the new reality, but when everybody has to have all their actions out in public, maybe everyone will start to realize that the world really is a different place.
Maybe enforcing radical honesty on everyone will help eliminate all the class distinctions, judgments, tribal bullshit when the 1%'s actions are as wide open visible as everybody elses.
Maybe data brokers wither and die when nothing is monetizable anymore.
Maybe the constant stream of corporate malfeasance goes away when all the records are there for everyone to see, all the time.
Maybe we actually start to recognize and treat the mental health issues that result in stalkers, abuse cases, stealing from the elderly, pedophilia, drug addiction, when all the dark web and every other facilitator is in the open.
Maybe a couple of decades down the line we'll have people who understand that their actions have consequences and every choice affects those around them and when lying is near impossible the whole damn planet will be more sane for it all.
Or I'm a nutcase, or too early for my time. Who can tell?
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#29First we are legally required to give them our info then they leak it
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