I'd be worried about legal repercussions if we were talking about the latest Disney movie, but this is merely the private information of a billion people. Never seen IP law give much of a crap about that before.

Private information on people is Equifax's IP.

A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".

Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...

Yeah, in the EU it does have Palantir's protection. /s

So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?

Not on an individual basis. If you collected a large number of them and someone copied them from you, then you could have a database right claim, which is sort of similar to copyright, but much less powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right

which has yet to leak. as far as we know, the equifax data never became public.

1 pirated Disney movie is a tragedy.

3,000,000,000 leaked Social Security Numbers is a statistic.

-Joseph "Social Credit" Stalin

...Is it obvious I, as an American who can confirm my SSN (and whatever else) was leaked by this, sincerely couldn't care less because this is leak incident number 897165176548795647564576415671?

That $10 UberEats gift card from CrowdStrike would be more valuable than another batch of Free Credit Monitoring(tm).

UberEats gift cards are the ultimate passive aggressive “fuck you”. To use them, you need to spend at least another 10 to actually get something

Is this NPD's "IP" though? Is my personal information that company scraped, now that company's intellectual property?

Where's the IP?

It's like phone books--a collection of data, no creative content.