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throwaway12145
10y ago
Some of those "baddies" you refer to are forced by contract to willingly upload that data and keep quiet about it. The penalties for breach of contract are severe; an entire company can go bankrupt overnight if they break the seal
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throwaway12145
10y ago
Visa requires at least some of their banking/prepaid partners to periodically upload customer data to an Acxiom FTP site. It's considered a "compliance" ask. Source: helped write a microservice for said FTP upload.