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If they find a match against the leaked data, that would validate it and prove it had not been tampered with and at least allow them to contact a subset of user
by willcipriano 6y ago
If they find a match against the leaked data, that would validate it and prove it had not been tampered with and at least allow them to contact a subset of users. Why can't they do that at least?
- londons_explore 6y agoThey can do that. They probably won't because they'll argue it's all part of peoples public profiles and therefore published information rather than private information.
- Someone 6y agoThat distinction doesn’t matter for the GDPR. Publicly available information can be personal data, even if the entire world knows about it.