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    LWD@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 days ago

    Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

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    Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

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    LWD@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 days ago
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    The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.
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      So, now they’ll pass laws making it illegal to divulge the addresses of politicians and other public figures without even considering that the same law should apply to everyone.

      It’ll be privacy for me but not for thee.

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        i was thinking the same thing! i was wondering how fast congress would push through a privacy bill when they keep getting doxxed.

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        The one positive from that outcome is that it’ll be very complicated to sort them out, and at the very least, I’m all for making data broker’s jobs harder

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          Just an excuse to fail on politicians they don’t like

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        Well yeah but murdering me is fine. Im kind of a murderslut like that.

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        Because they want to make site that journalists and advocacy groups still have ways where 200 randos on Twitter can do the dirty work for them.

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      Fuuuuuck i called they were gonna start doing this months ago.

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