On: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

[ethbr1]

Private information on people is Equifax's IP.

[Zuiii → ethbr1]

A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".

[dtech → Zuiii]

Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...

[adolph → dtech]

So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?

[rjmunro → adolph]

Not on an individual basis. If you collected a large number of them and someone copied them from you, then you could have a database right claim, which is sort of similar to copyright, but much less powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right

[hulitu → dtech]

Yeah, in the EU it does have Palantir's protection. /s

[basch → ethbr1]

which has yet to leak. as far as we know, the equifax data never became public.