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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by tux3 on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:54AM (#31861842)
They sound a lot more trustworthy to me for owning up to it and spelling it out literally. That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to recognize as a problem publicly.

When a company does a standard "we take your privacy very seriously" non-response right after demonstrating that they do not, in fact, take it very seriously, it makes it sound like they're not willing to acknowledge the problem at all.

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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by Aeolun on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:42AM (#31862742)
> That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to recognize as a problem publicly.

I think it’s more that 80% of all company employees can symphatize. The situation isn’t all that uncommon (falling asleep on the street and misplacing your stuff somewhere). The fact that this person had a USB stick with the data of ~450k people on was.

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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by xbar on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:24AM (#31862366)
Agreed.

The transparency of the entire event, end to end, becomes a "ho hum, thanks for telling me, i guess" sort of story. Which is, I suppose, why it's on HN.

I mean, "guy loses usb with data, finds usb with data" used to happen to me twice on Thursday back when usb was a thing. It was hardly front page news.

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