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2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 1 month ago by fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That all depends. If they're pulling that private data for use in questionnaires, the terms may not allow them to save it, but they scrape it from the form.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it definitely might still be a bad data source,and it's shady either way, just pointing out that "not public data" has a few meanings, and not all of them are synonymous with "private data".