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From: Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:05:08 +0000
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In message <37f3e3f6-6cf9-fab4-76f4-dbc1a07fd369@example.net>, D 
<nospam@example.net> writes
>Are you based in the US? Uploading your information, that enables 
>someone to identify you, without your consent, is illegal in the EU and 
>punishable by up to 4% of the global revenues of the company.
>

I'm in dear old Blighty (UK).  Question is, who is the company in this 
case ?  I assume Meta as the upload was done by an individual for 
reasons not explained.

>Another option is to have 2 phone numbers. One for work, and one for 
>friends (without quotationmarks).
>

I thought about that.  The thing is that 3 years ago we seemed to manage 
happily without it, but one person changing job meant that it now seems 
to be essential.  I've asked higher ups why we now seem to have a 
defacto requirement to use WA, but no one seems to know.  And I don't 
see why I should buy a second phone (and ongoing costs with running it) 
for what this year is likely to be 10 days use.

>I use the same technique with email. I have a spam-email that currently 
>has around 20k spam messages in it, and this is the one most companies 
>get.
>

I have my own domain.  Companies usually get a unique email address. 
Those that abuse it, or leak it, are soon found out, and may lose 
business as a result.

Adrian
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