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That's pretty bad IMO. What information is available?

In this case the information included first name, last name, ID number, phone number, address and parents names

> name, address, political jurisdiction, gender, date of birth, voting record, date of registration, and registration number

Voting record in this case means which elections you voted in, not who you voted for.

It is explicitly illegal to use these records to send advertisements, but who knows how well that works

These are most of the details that you get asked on the phone when you are asked to verify yourself in a lot of contexts (not banking, but say getting medical records from your health provided over the phone, etc).

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