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		jsprogrammer on Jan 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done S... How is observing lines of Chipotle customers private information? Anyone can do it. Anyone CANNOT query Capital One's transaction databases, which is the entire problem here. Make the transaction databases public (Bitcoin does) and open the casino to everyone else.

downandout on Jan 30, 2015 [–]

The point is that this wasn't private information, and it was not in a database that was the property of the target businesses. It didn't come from inside the company. Hence no "insider trading".

jsprogrammer on Jan 30, 2015 | [–]

Can you link me to the database used?

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