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Is there a torrent yet? I want to lookup my own data.
by tbrock 8y ago
Is there a torrent yet? I want to lookup my own data.
- astura 8y agoIt was discovered by a white hat; he didn't publicise a data dump.
- mindslight 8y agos/white/ass/. A white hat, in the context of these surveillance companies, would be Tyler Durden.
- dang 8y agoCould you please not post unsubstantive comments here?
- mindslight 8y agoI was calling attention to the vast difference between what the status quo security industry considers white hat and what free individuals should consider white hat - low corporate pain versus actually closing the hole. As I and others have said elsewhere, the data was leaked the moment it was collected and priced for selling to attackers. Forgoing full disclosure is really just blunting the truth, giving corporate whitewash a leg up, and delaying society learning the lesson of what we're up against. As (presumably) individuals and not owners of surveillance companies, we shouldn't bless this behavior as being in the public interest.
- jacquesm 8y agoLet's hope they were the first to discover it.
- Rjevski 8y agoI hope they were not and this data ends up public. I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them.
- macintux 8y ago> I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them. Who defines "privacy-violating"? Jumping into the mud because you feel aggrieved just makes you look like a pig.
- Rjevski 8y agoFacebook? Equifax? Ad networks? Basically anyone who profits off user data and makes it difficult/impossible to opt-out.
- astura 8y agoThis is pretty silly, you're going to publish something everyone already knows? What do you think that's going to accomplish? Most of these companies are publicly traded and finding top people in the private companies is just a Google search away. This business is all done out in the open. You can even force the companies subjected to the FCRA[1] to give you a report on exactly what they have on you. [1] They are subject to the FCRA if the data is sold to companies who make use of it in credit, employment, and housing decisions.
- jacquesm 8y agoIt's not all that silly actually. Politicians and corporate CEOs make the decision but rarely are on the receiving end of the fall-out. By concentrating on them and by distilling out that information from a much larger body of data enough of an embarrassment could be put together that they might start to pay attention. As long as all those needles are safe in the haystack they can be ignored, a stack of needles on the other hand is not so easily ignored.
- Rjevski 8y agoI wasn't talking about business-related data - that is indeed public already. I'm talking about revealing the same kind of data their companies collect on us, which is way more personal and could contain embarrassing stuff.
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- maaaats 8y agoGDPR would have allowed you to ask the company for it. And to some extent remove it.