Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
theregister.com
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The very prominent statistic they use close to the beginning of the article is both confidently and spectacularly incorrect in a way that should have been obvious even to someone doing a cursory skim of the text:
"For instance, there was the National Public Data (NPD) breach in 2024. This catastrophic incident exposed the sensitive personal information of nearly 2.9 billion US, Canadian, and British citizens. "
If you sum up the populations of those three countries, you don't even get to 500 million people, never mind 2.9 billion.
So it turns out the numbers are all valid. With or without AI they just misinterpreted the data. But indeed 2.9 billion records were stolen, whoever wrote this just clearly misunderstood that an individual could have more than 1 record associated to their person.