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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by propogandist on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:50AM (#17422496)
Mastercard and Visa [1] sell this data in aggregate to firms via brokers like Bluekai, to allow for ad-targeting.

I don't believe it'll be feasible to purchase just one person's purchase data [easily], but if you knew who you wanted to get to, it should be possible to narrow the targeting to get to them

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/data-directory-2810... [ctrl+F + mastercard]

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by discordance on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:36AM (#17422626)
Wouldn't a GDPR request to Visa or MasterCard in the EU get me this data?
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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by black_puppydog on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:26AM (#17422777)
That's what I was thinking. Would be awesome for personal budgeting...
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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by namibj on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:54AM (#17423522)
Well, they have to provide it digital, if they already have it digital. So yeah. Anyone wanna integrate the format they can deliver with e.g. GNUCash or so?
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