Adafruit Data Breach

[Ian.M]

Well, if people are going to stir the sh1t, best send them to the manure heap!

The whole movement stinks of newspeak, which would be mighty convenient for the American political and economic oligarchy, who seem determined to reduce their workforce to little better than indentured servitude.

[newbrain]

Even today it's nearly that available.

In Sweden, there are free services like https://hitta.se, just type a name and you'll get address, age and birthday, apartment/house size, who they live with and sometimes phone number - no data on minors, I think.
Rather creepy, but legal AFAIK.

[magic]

At least somebody is thinking of the children
How is it not a violation of all that newfangled GDPR stuff?

[thm_w]

Well if you want to argue semantics...

"Main output, secondary input" is not what MOSI means, it's just made up bullshit to be politically correct. Everyone knows it's Master out, Slave in, so were the words "master" and "slave" banned or were they just changed? What is the difference?

The meaning of BAN is to prohibit especially by legal means; also : to prohibit the use, performance, or distribution of.

They aren't banning it anywhere on their forums or comments, that I am aware of. You could say banned internal use though.

Its their own private business, if they decide to call a banana a vegetable, they are entirely entitled to do so, regardless of how wrong or stupid it is. Hell they could require their employees to all dress up as elves during work.

[SiliconWizard]

At least somebody is thinking of the children
How is it not a violation of all that newfangled GDPR stuff?

GPDR is mainly a smoke screen. 
I don't think it prevents web sites from holding personal data whatsoever. It mainly forces sites to allow people to have access to their own data if there is any, and to get it deleted if they so ask. But as long as nobody asks anything, I think they can do almost whatever they please. Of course, please correct me if I'm wrong about GPDR.

[james_s]

They aren't banning it anywhere on their forums or comments, that I am aware of. You could say banned internal use though.

Its their own private business, if they decide to call a banana a vegetable, they are entirely entitled to do so, regardless of how wrong or stupid it is. Hell they could require their employees to all dress up as elves during work.

Sure, and they have absolutely every right to do that if they want, just like I have the right to roll my eyes, think it's stupid and consider shopping elsewhere. Not saying I would never buy from them over that, but it sure doesn't do anything to encourage me to support them.