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Just as it says in the title. All these companies offering 'privacy' and 'security' services when they can't even keep their own shit secure. At the end of the day, the only chance we have at keeping private and secure is by handling our own data and avoiding all these companies entirely, and hope they all eventually disappear in bankruptcy hell.

Funny how this company is also a 'sponsor' for Have I Been Pwned, yet they are evidently just using that to market themselves to privacy conscious people by having their brand on the site.

These companies never cease to amaze me, and this causes me to trust Have I Been Pwned a bit less in terms of their marketed philosophy vs what they actually are.

I'm just ranting here, because I'm getting increasingly tired of all this shit. Sorry for that.

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[โ€“] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

At this point, I'm pretty sure all my information is already public.

With all the breaches and everyone selling information to anyone with cash, do you really think there's a point? I didn't have an Equifax account in 2017 but I had a credit card, cellphone, etc and I can't opt out of my info being sent there....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach

[โ€“] shrugs@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Might be a better strategy to hide your valid data in huge amounts of fake data. Who wants to create a bot that poisens my tracking data with nonsense?