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this data was made available through some other combination of services that exposed it, not Coinbase

That assumes the acknowledgement of whether a given email address is a member or not is not data in itself. That is arguable. For example, I know that in healthcare, merely confirming whether someone is a patient of yours is a violation.

But I agree with the larger point that the original disclosure is overblown.




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