Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by paulie_a on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:20AM (#17422393)

Figure out a way to make the data collected useless. You can't hide and block every attempt to track, collect and generally have your privacy invaded. But it may be possible to throw a wrench in the gears by making so much noise the data is low quality.

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by dredmorbius on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:50AM (#17422664)

Or increasing costs of holding, exchanging, or using it.

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by malio on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:16AM (#17422743)

That is what would be needed in the United States of Anarchy, but everyone is so busy trying to pull off their own scandle that I don’t think this could be done at an effective scale.

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