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When hackers broke into the computers of top American discount chain Target Corp, it made international headlines. Cyber-criminals sucked up tens of millions of credit card numbers, email and home addresses, phone numbers and more, selling them on the blackmarket to reap untold millions of dollars in profits. Target was forced to spend hundreds of millions in computer security upgrades, and much worse for the company was the loss of its customers’ trust. But what if you didn’t have a choice about whether to shop at a particular store, or whether to give an organization access to your identifying data? What if you were forced to turn over personal information that’s even more sensitive, like how much money you make, who you’re related to, and the names and ages of your children? And how would you feel if the organization collecting your data already had an incredibly poor track record for keeping that information safe? Well that’s the situation most Americans are already in, and the organization that collects