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> if they are doing it ... it will be the dead end of their business. I wish I could share your confidence about that. It seems to me we've seen corporate data
by HillaryBriss 10y ago
> if they are doing it ... it will be the dead end of their business.
I wish I could share your confidence about that. It seems to me we've seen corporate data leaks, deceptive practices, huge hack attacks, etc and all that happens is the corporations get a temporary PR black eye -- and then spring back into action as powerfully as before.
In the case of Google, if it came out that, say, Russian hackers had breached a bunch of gmail accounts, how many customers would just up and walk away from Google? And what company could even come close to filling the void to replace google for all of us consumers?
Like I say, I wanna believe what you believe. But it just doesn't seem like that's what happens in the real marketplace.
- a_lifters_life 10y agoIm with HillaryBriss here. There aren't enough repercussions for leaking pii data.
- DanBC 10y agoUK regulators recently fined TalkTalk £400,000 for a large data breach. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2016/10/talktalk-gets-record-400-000-fine-for-failing-to-prevent-october-2015-attack/ https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl... That's not company ending, but it should get the attention of directors.
- a_lifters_life 10y ago400k is nothing for a lot of companies in USA
- piyush_soni 10y agoThere are two things here. One is Google secretively going against their Privacy Policy and selling my data/sharing it with other previously undisclosed parties. The other is a data breach in which Google is attacked by some very skilled hackers. If the former ever happens, I'll delete all my data (whatever they allow) from their servers, and leave them forever. For the latter though, I trust them even more than most other companies to protect my data because of their technical know-how and experience. But a data breach is always a possibility with any online company, and that will be my bad luck - so I'm taking a calculated risk here.