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> What law did they break, exactly? That's not how laws work. Laws can be whatever we write them to be. Losing medical and financial records was once not illeg
by frisco 9y ago
> What law did they break, exactly?
That's not how laws work. Laws can be whatever we write them to be. Losing medical and financial records was once not illegal too.
- sgift 9y agoNot retroactively, that would be a disaster.
- gozur88 9y agoAnd specifically mentioned in the constitution (twice!) as something the government can't do.
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt absolutely is how criminal laws work under the Constitutional prohibition of ex post facto laws; while we can write forward looking criminal laws however we want (within other Constitutional limits), we can't apply those new laws to past conduct.
- Retra 9y agoYou can apply them to discussions about hypothetical solutions to current problems, though.
- stale2002 9y agoSo, what, it should be illegal to leak your data on public Facebook scraping? None of the info they had was private info. If you don't want your info to be leaked then don't make it public.
- gozur88 9y agoNo, that's not how laws work. The law comes first. Then its application to behavior. If they didn't break any existing laws then there's nothing to do but propose a new law.