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I think there are two key aspects to data breaches; privacy and fraud. The solution for the latter is simple; the liability is on the organisation that uses that identity data rather than the one that stores it. If the bank lends money to a criminal using my data, that's on them. I see no reason why any of the random bits of data that identify me should be of any use to someone else claiming they are me. These things shouldn't be considered secrets as they're always shared with at least one other party.

Just this would reduce the value of obtaining such data.

The privacy aspect is harder to deal with, but it's not obviously clear that a majority of people care. GDPR helps focus minds in large corporations s and maybe that's enough.

That only holds true when your basic needs to survive are met such that you're able to entertain a philosophy such as "reject car ownership". I suspect most people are going to abandon such a philosophy as soon as "putting food on the table" is no longer possible.

Conflicting ideas such as these crop up all the time. For instance, "commuting in a car is dead time, at least I can read/work on the train". A reasonable position at face value, but entirely useless to the person who finishes work at 17:00 and must pick the kids up from school at 17:30. The 30 mins car ride may be "dead time", but the 60 mins by public transport obviously doesn't work for them.

I would guess that the "rejecting car ownership" types probably have this as a subset of a broader philosophy where they've somewhat rejected wealth in favour of something else, or already have the economic freedom to make such a choice.

In my experience, SVG is the overall better fit for graphing, but canvas is much faster. I have a use case that requires plotting over 10,000 data points and the only free libraries that I've found that can do this quickly are canvas based ones.