National Public Data scrapes the personally identifying information of billions of individuals from non-public sources

Honest question: If these sources are non-public, how did National Public Data get access?

Facetious questions: If they are using private or restricted sources of data accumulation on an international scale, should they be calling themselves National Public Data? Seems like Global Private Data would be more fitting.

claimed to have access to the personal data of 2.9 billion people from the U.S., U.K., and Canada

How does that work, when the total population of those countries is less than 0.5 billion?

Another reminder to use privacy-respecting stuff and fake identities for as much as possible online.

Spoiler: it is only a fraction of that

They duplicated records and hoped no one would notice. Don't believe me? Look at the data yourself or find someone who has.

If they have my data and it includes a SSN, I can guarantee it’s not accurate.