9 stories tagged personal-data, newest first.
445 points by clan | 321 comments
Danish Central Person Register (CPR) notice that unauthorized access via a company's legitimate lookup access exposed names, addresses and CPR numbers of about 8.8 million people.
380 points by thisislife2 | 233 comments
MarketWatch article about employers using personal data to determine the lowest salary a candidate will accept; the page loaded a captcha verification screen.
425 points by lukakopajtic | 204 comments
Felix Krause's personal site explaining why he has tracked over 100 types of life metrics daily since 2019 in a single database, with visualizations of the results.
541 points by mholt | 137 comments
Landing page for Timelinize, an open source personal archival suite that organizes your data from many sources into a local, private timeline.
502 points by noperator | 191 comments
Blog post describing how the author exported ~900 saved Pocket articles before its shutdown and used OpenAI's o3 model to build a personal profile from them.
429 points by luu | 144 comments
Dan Q's blog post, also offered as a podcast episode, about Google exposing his personal phone number, apparently in search results.
540 points by bubblehack3r | 358 comments
Troy Hunt's blog post analyzing the National Public Data breach, which was claimed to expose records on 3 billion people.
552 points by throwaway_08932 | 245 comments
A Dreamwidth blog post about Glassdoor adding the author's real name and location to their profile without consent; the capture shows a captcha check page.
411 points by wonger_ | 94 comments
Ben Kettle's blog post describing how he automatically generated a printed book series from three years of his iMessage conversation history.