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National public data breach exposes sensitive information of 2.9B U.S. citizens (dataconomy.com)
1 points by lhuser123 685 days ago
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2.9 billion records. Title makes it seem Americans have been more busy than they have been.
i was thinking they might be including the deceased ones as well
It makes an interesting question, how many Americans have ever lived? I can say with confidence it’s not 2.9 billion but I have no idea what the real number is.
When they say 2.9B - the same person appears in the data multiple times with data showing the individual and relative