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Ed Markey: There is a big difference between someone breaking into a database to get someone's home address and someone finding the…

On the recordJune 14, 2011
There is a big difference between someone breaking into a database to get someone's home address and someone finding the home address in a publicly accessible file.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights the distinction between data breaches and publicly available information.

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