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INSIDE THE "3 BILLION PEOPLE" NATIONAL PUBLIC DATA BREACH

National Public Data is a data aggregator that provides services based on the large volumes of personal information it holds. These services are used by investigators, background check websites, data resellers, mobile apps, applications, and more. The company was breached and its records started being leaked in April. The records were publicly posted last week. This article takes a look at what the data contains. There are no email addresses in the social security number files, and at least some of the data is not associated correctly.

FORMER GOOGLE CEO DOES DAMAGE CONTROL OVER REMOTE WORK COMMENTS

Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently spoke at Stanford's School of Engineering. While answering a question about Google's lag in artificial intelligence development, Schmidt complained about Google's work-life balance, saying that companies that want to compete shouldn't let people work from home and only come in one day a week. He noted the history of dominant tech companies missing out on the next wave of industry and played up the importance of hard-charging founders like Elon Musk. Schmidt has since said he misspoke about Google and its work hours and that he regrets his error.

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