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Re:I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Sho... by icebraining on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:10AM (#15754932)
The only fix is to issue globally unique identifiers. Then we can encrypt demographic data at rest. Greatly mitigating the damage of breeches.

How does that follow? I work in a country with such identifiers, and I don't see the connection.

By the way, just because such identifiers exist, doesn't mean people are keen on giving them out to every company, and in fact, asking and storing it is frowned upon by our national data protection commission, unless you have a good reason to do so (just like any other personal data).

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Re:I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Sho... by specialist on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:45PM (#15761344)
Just like passwords, you don't store the identifiers as-is, which is a rule that is easy to explain, enforce.

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