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> Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do data leaks cause? Lets imagine a situation. You've got an officially looking letter, from unknown to you organization, claiming that for example, your lawn is infected by a grass variant of COVID-19 and must be disinfected, and this organization could do it in a jiffy for a mere $1k. Probably it is a scam, isn't it? How do you judge it? One of the sign of a scam is a lack of personal information in the letter. But if you see that letter contains your name, address, phone number, lawn dimensions, then you probably shouldn't throw letter to a garbage bin, you should find some other kind of test to judge is it a scam. Isn't it? So when you made your personal information public, scam detection is going to impose bigger costs on you. Even if we assume that you are perfect scam detector and will not let any of scam to pass you undetected, then the lot of people are not perfect in this regard. So the more difficult detection is, the more prey for scammers. It impose costs for a society overall, because society start to give money to scammers, to finance all that activity that is counter productive for an economic growth. But as for me it is just a nuisance to decipher such letters trying to spend as little time on a scam detection as possible while having no false positives. |