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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL (cambridgeanalytica.org)

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

[..] PuffPal, a platform that manages membership and age verification for cannabis retailers and clubs across Europe.

Get ready for many more leaks, as governments require identity and age verification everywhere online.

Many organisations, which cannot be trusted with this data, are going to be processing it.