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It should be illegal for any company to store my private information like this. The 'anonymous' sharing of my information is easily de-anonymized. Sites asking
by mjparrott 7y ago
It should be illegal for any company to store my private information like this. The 'anonymous' sharing of my information is easily de-anonymized. Sites asking for your phone number for "security purposes" are a joke.
You just have to accept that absolutely everything you've done online is public information. If it isn't now, it is being stored and future tools / databases will make what is either difficult to access or difficult to interpret very easy to use in the future.
- breischl 7y agoUsing phone number as an example of private information is pretty hilarious. Remember when the phone company used to literally print your name and phone number in a book and send it to everyone in your town? Man, their security was terrible! But it works perfectly fine as a two-factor auth mechanism to prove that whoever setup the account is the same person trying to log into it at some later time.
- perl4ever 7y agoBirthday is commonly used to verify people despite the practice of broadcasting it to people on Facebook.
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- lopmotr 7y agoWhat private information? If you give a random website your email address or phone number, it's not private anymore and you're the one who released the secret. Unless they promised to keep it private in a legally binding way, in which case, your wish is already true.
- Anthony-G 7y agoSuch a cavalier attitude to the storage of EC citizens' personal data is illegal under Article 32 of the GDPR: https://www.gdpr.org/regulation/article-32.html https://www.gdpr.org/regulation/article-32.html Citizens of the US really need similar protections.