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Companies get hit with multi-million dollar fines for violating their privacy policies. So there's your incentive. I just don't see open source as better prote
by millstone 8y ago
Companies get hit with multi-million dollar fines for violating their privacy policies. So there's your incentive.
I just don't see open source as better protecting privacy. See for example the telemetry in .NET Core or VS Code [1]. Users discover this stuff by watching network traffic, not through code audits.
1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
- extralego 8y agoFines are accounted as overhead. Watching network traffic is limited to circumstantial evidence, and not even that without a circumstantially isolated environment. Those are a couple of scenarios where these accusations can be made.
- bronco21016 8y agoIs a multi-million dollar fine enough to matter? Let’s assume Apple violated their privacy policy and was fined $999 million, the highest “multi-million dollar” fine they could be assessed. That’s just barely more than 1% of their market cap. Fines are definitely incentive to do right but the fine must be felt. I’m not aware of any cases where the tech giants have been levied a fine that really hits them hard.
- Godel_unicode 8y agoThe fine you're proposing would cause a much larger hit to market cap than you're suggesting. Consider, Apple made ~20 billion in profit last quarter, your hypothetical fine would be a precipitous hit to profit margin which, when reported on the quarterly earnings call, would cause an abrupt downturn in share price. Consider the 13% hair cut earlier this year when the market thought Apple was going to miss. Then there's the existential panic of "does this mean Apple is in for more such fines?".
- extralego 8y agoI guess jail time will have to do.