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2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed(www.tomsguide.com)

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That 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.

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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”.

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