Hackers Claim Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

Things like this were previous a pain, but now with AI being able to easily shift through these things to identify high value targets (adversary's military personnel, politicians/executives for blackmailers) maybe something will finally be done. Heck I bet if someone provided a weaponized AI platform to digest this information and float everything of interest in it to the top that might finally get something done.

I think at some point the system needs to switch to aggregating violence/damage inflicted when it's against thousands/millions of people. A business can't just ruin one persons life without consequence. Slightly damaging millions of lives should rise to a similar level at some point.

Someone going after "high value" targets can just buy the data commercially.

There was a related talk at the 38c3:

Databroker Files: How Apps and Data Brokers Enable Mass Surveillance

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3GmYJo2LqtA

If I recall, a senator's salacious 1G text messages getting captured spurred quite a bit of security development.

Sure, but I can't. But I can weaponize leaked/hacked data sets to bring attention and get the government to care since they don't currently seem to care about the data being collected nor it being laxly protected.

But if you had money you could. Register a new business, pay the broker, good to go.