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If you think you may be affected, change your email addresses. That's the advice they're giving.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And what compensation will be offered? The amount of careless use of our data, and it goes without any significant punishment or retribution, is just horrendous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking christ. And these are the organisations we are supposed to trust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Trust no one. Why would you even trust either govt or corporations?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wish what I do was more common:

Buy a domain name.

Make a new email alias for every entity I interact with:
[email protected]
[email protected]
etc.

They all point to the same FastMail, Proton, or self-hosted email address, so I only have to go to one place to read all my email.

I can just nuke an alias whenever it starts receiving spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't need to go that far. I'm only familiar with one password manager but it does create email aliases when you're signing up, though I never tried.

The other thing you can do if you have Gmail , the plus sign is used to create aliases. If your email is [email protected], you will also receive emails automatically for [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, those are good, too.