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Re:Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach by ogre_codes on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:19PM (#22744688)
Is it safe now to just assume that most everything about me has been exposed to someone? My only hope is that the number of places I've provided bogus information to creates enough noise that the truth is obscured some.
Re:Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach by chrischen on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:08PM (#22744923)
Probably (Mastercard provides free monitoring of leaked databases: https://mastercardus.idprotectiononline.com/enrollment/embed...) however the service is kinda garbage because they censor it so much that I have no idea what of my data is actually leaked), but from a quick Google search it looks like you've voluntarily given out a lot about yourself anyways. I think most people have and are lulled into a sense of false security simply because no one has a need to target them yet. Sort of like the "I've done nothing illegal so I have nothing to fear" mentality but substitute government with criminals.
Re:Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach by notkaya on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:09AM (#22746172)
I often wonder how big my data footprint is. I don't have any social media, and I cycle between a few handles on any publicly facing site I keep an account with. I suppose Google must have all of my search history associated with my main email address, but I use several different emails and browsers in my day to day.

I guess I'm wondering how good all of these companies are at sharing data between themselves. What kind of data is exposed when I use my primary email to log into Zoom or Spotify on a work computer, or my phone, or one of my relative's computers? To what extent do these companies coordinate and share this data?

It all just seems like a really big unknown to me, and I'm relatively tech savvy.