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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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