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- The problem is that your data is saved by default and almost never deleted. The rental desk needs to only verify the license — nothing in that transaction requires keeping a scan forever. But storage costs nothing and your data is stored forever to hacker's delight. Unfortunately you can't prevent your data leakage, you can only punish them legallyby papacoder101
- I read an article, and within seconds my personal data was shared with 229 “partners”.by bouke
- This kind of inept security should be punished at a level that makes it cheaper to do it right than to pay a small percentage of their profits to continue with their assault on citizens' private info.by pstuart
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621 - Sept 2026 (273 comments)
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