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This is all bullshit. My data is all over the place. At this point I expect none of my personal data to be private. This last few weeks alone my data was stolen from British Airways, Cathay Pacific, SPG/Mariott, Quora. As users we are completely powerless.

Time for change. Time for intelligent heads to come together and think of how a better internet security architecture needs to look like.

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I'm half afraid that some sort of Cambridge Analytica type firm is buying these on the dark-net and merging all the data-sets together trying to put together even more accurate psychological profiles.

I wonder how easy it would be to piece together all these breaches with any degree of accuracy to build a "complete picture" of an individual.

Say your name, email address and social get leaked in one 500m user dump and your email passport number and actual address in another. I've never worked with datasets on this scale hence the ignorance.

Maybe its possible for one person of interest but how complicated would it be to match up everything?

I’ve oftened wondered if I am helped by my practice of using [servicename]@[mydomain.com] for each service I sign up for. I used to do it to help control and track spam, then I stopped when spam stopped becoming an issue. But now I feel like no longer having a single unique key to correlate my data across different leaked data sets might also be a benefit.

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