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		DanHulton 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs... We really need to get used to treating PII as poison, storing as little of it as possible, and getting rid of it as soon as we're done with it.

sigwinch 8 months ago [–]

I think we can treat it as currency. All nine letters of my SSN, for example, I’ll allow you to store those if in return I get to store the name of the CEO’s boat.

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