Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by ethbr1 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @05:19PM (#41250623)

Private information on people is Equifax's IP.

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by Zuiii on Thursday August 15, 2024 @12:49AM (#41253171)

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".

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by dtech on Thursday August 15, 2024 @01:49AM (#41253422)

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_...

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by hulitu on Thursday August 15, 2024 @05:50AM (#41254390)

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

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by adolph on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:56AM (#41256870)

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

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by rjmunro on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:19PM (#41258909)

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

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by basch on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:21AM (#41257111)

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

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