• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Holy fuck! That’s almost a third of the Earth’s population! One corporation should not have that much data on individuals.

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      5 months ago

      the worst part is this tidbit:

      To conduct its business, National Public Data scrapes the personally identifying information of billions of individuals from non-public sources—meaning plaintiffs didn’t knowingly provide their data to the company, the complaint said.

      so because our to-do list isn’t already packed with extra crap, now you can add “check your accounts every day”