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One billion identity records exposed in unsecured ID verification database | Biometric Update (www.biometricupdate.com)
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[โ€“] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like data breaches happen everywhere and the tech pros have been warning this would happen since the beginning of ID verification databases.

[โ€“] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

It's also like they wanted us to be surveilled, and I happened to know the biggest pushers, that being an organization of which when I name them, Lemmings get into a hissy fit with me over it. That's another topic outside of this, though.