These issues are relatively new in awareness and most folks understanding of them is normally after the damage has been done.
I hope that while this discussion continues, folks will realize that there is no such thing as data security.
Even when governments and corporations get a grip on their problems, there is not a sole to watch out for your individual interest except you.
You must demand at least better in regulation of your personal information. Or you will never have it.
The US has virtually no personal protections as compared to Europe, and that is not saying a whole lot.
With the addition of biometerics soon to be everywhere, someone has the potential to know you better than you know you.
And at the same time you will have a harder time proving who you are. Unless you buy into the next group of flawed technology.
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