Well, paywalled. But not reading an article has never stopped me from commenting before! Haha! I’m going to file this story: third-party/corporate contract tr

Well, paywalled. But not reading an article has never stopped me from commenting before! Haha! I’m going to file this story: third-party/corporate contract tracing apps sitting on mountains of valuable contact information ask themselves, what should we do with all this free milk? ...together with common _business_ practice from some US companies such as Walgreens and Target who require you to show ID for any purchase of alcohol or tobacco products no matter how old you are (prev age was less than 35). Of course they want to scan your ID for this, which gives them all this State processed and verified PII with extra data not related to age verification—-for free. Recall in 2013 Target had a data breach of 40m user cc and debit card info. There is some responsibility for protecting payment data (quick search says it cost Target $300m). Data on your DL, AFAIK, is unregulated, so what is the consequences of mishandling your contact info?