• harmbugler@piefed.social
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    5 hours ago

    My original point included companies that provide us with nothing. I haven’t been a customer of Origin Energy in four years, but they still had sensitive data that recently got breached. Why are they allowed to keep that apparently valuable data for free?

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      2 hours ago

      Data is often required to be stored for audit purposes. Audits are also part of why you don’t usually delete records from a database.

      And you’re assuming they were profiting off that data. Not every company that stores it sells it.