> Birthday is an included item. That's definitely private as it is often used to confirm identity.
mylife.com publicly posts birthdays so apparently not
mylife.com publicly posts birthdays so apparently not
Just because some skeezy website shares all my personal information does not make it public information. It's private to me and I'd rather it remain undistributed, where possible.
Overall point being, this US voter data leak is bad. That appears to have released information on all of us that we consider private.
I kinda think it does mean exactly that. Just because you don't want something to be public doesn't mean that it isn't public.
Nothing about the definition of public or private restrict either to being protected by the government. I can consider some information private without it being protected in the legal sense.
That said, I expect that any government entity that released my birthday would be held responsible for a data leak.
Nope. What's your point?
> "Just because you don't want something to be public doesn't mean that it isn't public."
In the future, your location data could be tracked, shared/hacked, analyzed to produce more information, and breached just like this RNC dataset.
My point is, something private doesn't become public when a criminal exposes it. It's still private to you.
If in the future it is no longer public, then I won't consider it private. I may not be happy about it, but that doesn't change the fact that it is public at that point.
So it is with birthdays. There isn't any government organization who will distribute that information.
If all credit card numbers were stolen and distributed, we would still have considered them private before that.
The same is true for these birthdays. They were private, then stolen and made public. That they are now public doesn't retroactively make the theft okay. Theft is theft.
The lesson here is to tighten security, increase security education and awareness, and increase investigation into the most egregious of these crimes so that violators can be brought to justice.