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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by chevman on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:25PM (#31590580)
Um, you can buy this data and get access to the raw, individual records no problem.

Here's one example - http://www.dev.kbmg.com/services-solutions/data/data-solutio...

I've seen this, and many other similar data sets. You can easily look up yourself, your friends, etc.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by soared on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:52AM (#31594901)
You’re misunderstanding that page, you 100% cannot buy raw data and get individual records that contain personally identifiable information.
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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by chevman on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:27PM (#31603105)
Im not sure how much more clear I can be.

The example I linked, Amerilink data set, I have a copy of (via my company), sitting on our internal corp NAS drive, and it is 100% raw data with PII. Can query on name, mailing address, DOB, etc. We have an unrestricted license that we pay a good chunk for annually.

1,000+ attributes on every US consumer.

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