A fun business data leak

I had a… fun morning! This was a snippet of an email from a local business that hit Clara’s and my inboxes late yesterday afternoon: Kindly note that we obtained your contact information from $OTHER Wait, what? This $OTHER business disclosed personally-identifiable information (PII) about us to a third party without informing us, and without our consent. I like to be light hearted here, but I’m fsck(8)-ing furious. I’m a data privacy officer where I work, and the Australian Privacy Act 1988...