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A privacy breach could mean that your job application is rejected, that you pay higher interest on a loan or higher insurance premiums.
It could mean that your health insurance refuses cover for some treatment because some data points towards a pre-existing condition.
You could be rejected as a tenant based on the scoring done by a referencing agency or you could get searched every time you cross a border.
In a more unlikely event could even become the victim of a miscarriage of justice or get blackmailed by a corrupt government official.
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A privacy breach could mean that your job application is rejected, that you pay higher interest on a loan or higher insurance premiums.
It could mean that your health insurance refuses cover for some treatment because some data points towards a pre-existing condition.
You could be rejected as a tenant based on the scoring done by a referencing agency or you could get searched every time you cross a border.
In a more unlikely event could even become the victim of a miscarriage of justice or get blackmailed by a corrupt government official.