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There's a scale from "there's no evidence of abuse and if there had been abuse we're certain we would have seen evidence" to "there's no evidence of abuse but t
by mjw1007 8y ago
There's a scale from "there's no evidence of abuse and if there had been abuse we're certain we would have seen evidence" to "there's no evidence of abuse but there's no reason to suppose if there had been abuse we'd see any evidence".
Companies tend not to be terribly good at articulating where we are on that sort of scale.
- Kalium 8y agoYou're absolutely right! There very much is such a scale. Even the companies who are the very best at communications will tend to struggle to communicate clearly when filtered through a press that have strong incentives to construe everything as a data breach. Lay people reading either of your statements will tend to stop at "there's no evidence" and go "What do you mean, 'no evidence'!? I want certainty!". Witness how readily and widely this whole G+ event has been mis-reported as MASSIVE DATA BREACH. While you're completely correct, perhaps there's room for subtlety here.