Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 month agoThat all depends. If they’re pulling that private data for use in questionnaires, the terms may not allow them to save it, but they scrape it from the form.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, it definitely might still be a bad data source,and it’s shady either way, just pointing out that “not public data” has a few meanings, and not all of them are synonymous with “private data”.