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Credit monitoring, * offered by Equifax *, should not be legitimate restitution. It’s like Apple’s MacBooks blowing up and a judge ruling Apple can give iCloud
by dannyw 7y ago
Credit monitoring, * offered by Equifax *, should not be legitimate restitution.
It’s like Apple’s MacBooks blowing up and a judge ruling Apple can give iCloud storage as compensation.
- koolba 7y agoYou mean like the Zappos settlement where the restitution for the victims of the data breach was a 10% off coupon to Zappos? Which also lets them spam all their old customers who do not otherwise receive promotional emails from them.
- harryh 7y agoI got like 3 of these emails from zappos. At some level you just have to laugh that they're advertising a court enforced penalty.
- tylermac1 7y agoA 10% off coupon that I not only received a few days ago, but has to be used before Jan 1, 2020. Just a middle finger to the people who's data they were irresponsible with.
- troydavis 7y agoThis will continue until data protection legislation passes in the US. That’s the only way consumers will have any recourse. Here’s EPIC’s summary of the legislation options: https://www.epic.org/GradingOnACurve/ https://www.epic.org/GradingOnACurve/
- Thriptic 7y agoThis is the correct answer. The problem isn't how the class action suit was orchestrated; the problem is that class action is the only plausible and scalable form of justice currently available. Severe automatic penalties of X dollars per account lost and / or criminal liability for executives similar to SOX is what we need to deter these mistakes.
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- somebodythere 7y agoIt is exactly like that. What makes you think that wouldn't happen?
- dhimes 7y agoWhen they lied about their monitor size I got a coupon for a few bucks off my next purchase of an Apple monitor. Never used it.
- rubyn00bie 7y agoNo this is worse, this is some fucking mafia shit. Equifax: YOU NEED THIS PROTECTION. PAY US... or else maybe there will be an ACCIDENT with your data Me: No, I don't, think so. Shit, sounds illegal to me Equifax: WHOOPS. We had an accident. Me: WTF? [calls authorities] Equifax: Well, let us make this right, how about we now give you some _free_ protection as a sign of our goodwill... you know to try it out... just in case that WHOOPS ends up being a problem for you. Me: [looks at response from authorities] This is okay? This is fucked. This is state-sanctioned organized crime at its finest.
- FireBeyond 7y ago"And when you sign up, we'll ask for a credit card. And if you don't cancel the free protection, we'll start billing you for it soon enough."
- codycraven 7y agoWe should have all collaborated to sign up for the monitoring and let them charge the cards, then all simultaneously issue chargebacks when the first charge hit to wreck their ability to accept credit cards and destroy their business.