What did measures like gdpr ever achieve except for making me click a cookie prompt away.
Since people still seem to conflate the two, let me say it loud and clear:
GDPR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE COOKIE PROMPTS!
1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak
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#32What did measures like gdpr ever achieve except for making me click a cookie prompt away.
It's really a wonder how every time gdpr is even remotely related, there's always gotta be someone complaining about how gdpr is at fault for the cookie/data prompts, and never that sites and advertising companies (and their 2137 partners) are at fault for actually making those prompts as annoying as possible in hopes that you just agree.
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#33Nobody told their marketing department:
https://www.idmerit.com/blog/idmerits-data-breach-fail-safe-...
archived for posterity: https://archive.ph/MdSfO
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#34Unrelated to the story but TIL AOL is still a thing in 2026!
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#35What did measures like gdpr ever achieve except for making me click a cookie prompt away.
It makes you aware a site is selling your data or is otherwise tracking you because otherwise they would not need a banner to request for consents to do so :)
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#36Unrelated to the story but TIL AOL is still a thing in 2026!
Seems like it deserves to be its own post.
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#37If I was in Vegas, I would bet my life savings that the CXOs of the said ID Verification company's data isn't included in the leak. This is just like that Mc Donald's CEO's video - they never use what they create.
I bet their data is included too, for two reasons:
First, identity verification data for KYC is a little bit different from fast food or social media in that it's very difficult to live a normal life without being subject to any KYC checks. (I'm sure someone will chime in that they get paid in bitcoin and buy their groceries with cash.) If you are applying for some financial product or service that requires KYC, and they can't find any information about you, you will often either be denied that product or have to jump through a bunch of additional hoops to prove who you are. So it benefits CXOs to have their data included in these datasets, in fact if they are well paid they may well have more activity requiring KYC checks than the average person.
Second, and much more simply, one's own data often makes for a good test case since you know its accuracy.
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#38Yet another point of proof that the US needs a HIPAA covering PII.
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#39At this point I get about 1-2 emails a year telling me some company has exposed my private data in some way. It’s completely routine.
We need a law mandating the company pays at least $1k per exposed record per customer or absolutely nothing will change. The current cost of “here’s a years worth of credit monitoring” doesn’t even amount to a slap on the wrist.
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#40At this point I get about 1-2 emails a year telling me some company has exposed my private data in some way. It’s completely routine. We need a law mandating the company pays at least $1k per exposed record per customer or absolutely nothing will change. The current cost of “here’s a years worth of credit monitoring” doesn’t even amount to a slap on the wrist.
And tied to inflation (or to a % of gross income), too, otherwise it'll be cheaper in X years to get fined than to hire information security officers