My point is I don't think one bit of this is accidental.

And my point is that it's pretty easy for people to accidentally do it, and this is corroborated by the available evidence, so we should apply hanlon's razor rather than assuming someone at browserstack was laughing maniacally while uploading the email list.

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michaelcampbell 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I made no such assertion. Only that businesses do things in the business's interest more frequently than databreaches.

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gruez 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> Only that businesses do things in the business's interest

That's not mutually exclusive with "someone on the sales team uploaded the entire customer list for sales purposes, not realizing the privacy implications".

>more frequently than databreaches.

You're fighting against both hanlon's razor and occam's razor here. The OP states the leak came from Apollo, and as other commenters have noted, Apollo specifically has a "Contributor Network" that shares email lists with other companies, and isn't well documented. It's not hard to imagine how this was done unintentionally. On the other hand there's no evidence to suggest this was done intentionally, other generic cynicism of "businesses do things in the business's interest" or whatever.

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		On the other hand it is always convenient to hide behind the "We big, careless, silly org, we no knows how to handle data.". If we apply too many razors, then they are just gonna cut our freedom away. At some size of organizations negligence becomes malicious, since they ought to have people knowing how stuff should be handled and they most likely ignore it. What is more likely? Everyone at an organization's IT, sales and data protection department is incapable of doing their job, or someone doesn't give a damn, calculating, that preventing such things from happening costs too much?
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