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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains (inti.io)

submitted 6 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I don't believe that would be an issue if you would go into outlook for example and change your email from john@Police.de to john@Polizei.de. If this was done then the forgot your password wouldn't function because that email address now doesn't have an account associated with it.

I think the issue was the account never being deleted or transferred. Which my question was why weren't they deleted or transferred? If they were too lazy to do that then at the very least, hold onto the old domain so they couldn't be used.