Examples of Misuse of Personal Data

Owned by Dana Ayotte

Last updated: Sept 22, 2016

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An open, work-in progress list of known mis-uses of personal data

credit-card fraud (stealing of credit-card numbers)
selling email address to advertisers / other services
auto-spam of email contacts
sharing/selling personal information to advertisers
selling personal information to 3rd parties for aggregate data collection