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So, what, now somehow a group of people impacted by this potential identity theft vector will need to rally together under some keen prosecutor to personally sue? Why aren't the vendors auto-summoned to court by the government when these breaches occur?</rhetoricalQuestion>

Hooray for the free market .. ?

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> Hooray for the free market

The free market says they don't care. I've had my identity stolen from a data breach. Could I have sued? Yes. Could I have led a class action lawsuit? Yes.

Did I? No. Why? I'm fine now and just like billions of other humans, I'm lazy and simply just don't care enough.

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