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Examples of Misuse of Personal Data

Examples of Misuse of Personal Data

Owned by Dana Ayotte
Last updated: Sept 22, 2016

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

 

 

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