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I'd be worried about legal repercussions if we were talking about the latest Disney movie, but this is merely the private information of a billion people. Never

by bhaney 2y ago

I'd be worried about legal repercussions if we were talking about the latest Disney movie, but this is merely the private information of a billion people. Never seen IP law give much of a crap about that before.

ethbr1 2y ago
Private information on people is Equifax's IP.
- Zuiii 2y ago
  A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".
  - dtech 2y ago
    Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union#Database_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...
    - hulitu 2y ago
      Yeah, in the EU it does have Palantir's protection. /s
    - adolph 2y ago
      So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?
      - rjmunro 2y ago
        Not on an individual basis. If you collected a large number of them and someone copied them from you, then you could have a database right claim, which is sort of similar to copyright, but much less powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
- basch 2y ago
  which has yet to leak. as far as we know, the equifax data never became public.
Dalewyn 2y ago
1 pirated Disney movie is a tragedy. 3,000,000,000 leaked Social Security Numbers is a statistic. -Joseph "Social Credit" Stalin ...Is it obvious I, as an American who can confirm my SSN (and whatever else) was leaked by this, sincerely couldn't care less because this is leak incident number 897165176548795647564576415671? That $10 UberEats gift card from CrowdStrike would be more valuable than another batch of Free Credit Monitoring(tm).
- rqtwteye 2y ago
  UberEats gift cards are the ultimate passive aggressive “fuck you”. To use them, you need to spend at least another 10 to actually get something

by bhaney 2y ago

ethbr1 2y ago

Private information on people is Equifax's IP.

Zuiii 2y ago
A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".
- dtech 2y ago
  Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union#Database_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...
  - hulitu 2y ago
    Yeah, in the EU it does have Palantir's protection. /s
  - adolph 2y ago
    So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?
    - rjmunro 2y ago
      Not on an individual basis. If you collected a large number of them and someone copied them from you, then you could have a database right claim, which is sort of similar to copyright, but much less powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
basch 2y ago
which has yet to leak. as far as we know, the equifax data never became public.

Dalewyn 2y ago

1 pirated Disney movie is a tragedy. 3,000,000,000 leaked Social Security Numbers is a statistic. -Joseph "Social Credit" Stalin ...Is it obvious I, as an American who can confirm my SSN (and whatever else) was leaked by this, sincerely couldn't care less because this is leak incident number 897165176548795647564576415671? That $10 UberEats gift card from CrowdStrike would be more valuable than another batch of Free Credit Monitoring(tm).

rqtwteye 2y ago
UberEats gift cards are the ultimate passive aggressive “fuck you”. To use them, you need to spend at least another 10 to actually get something