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It’s a burden the government is imposing on businesses, ideally you want a high legal bar before suing for misuse or you will create noncompliance. A rogue empl

It’s a burden the government is imposing on businesses, ideally you want a high legal bar before suing for misuse or you will create noncompliance. A rogue employee should not be one. For example, let’s assume you add a bunch of requirements to implementation, say specific encrypted terminals. Now restaurants can’t get those for months. What will they do, close? Ignore it all together? We are in a pandemic, the main focus should be collecting the contact tracing information while still feeding people. If this were to last years we can also solve all privacy concerns, but it’s really hard to do in two months.

c22 6y ago
They already made businesses close with no recourse. Why is it crazy to require businesses to follow specific procedures if they want to re-open? Why shouldn't those procedures be designed to protect the public?
- valuearb 6y ago
  It’s not crazy to have specific procedures, but think about unintended consequences. The procedures need to be achievable in the real world, not so burdensome they can’t or won’t be followed. Maybe a better example, let’s say NZ institutes a $50,000 fine per each occurrence of misuse of personal information collected per their requirements. Now a small business owner could find out they are facing a $250,000 fine and bankruptcy because of one horny employee violating their specific trading instructions. What restaurant would ever take that risk? If the government wants to force businesses to collect personal information, it better be prepared to provide secure means of collecting and communicating that information to them. And it should indemnify the businesses for any liability from release of that information that’s not willful or intentional. If the business faithfully follows the rules, punish the perpetrator, not the business owner.

c22 6y ago

They already made businesses close with no recourse. Why is it crazy to require businesses to follow specific procedures if they want to re-open? Why shouldn't those procedures be designed to protect the public?

valuearb 6y ago
It’s not crazy to have specific procedures, but think about unintended consequences. The procedures need to be achievable in the real world, not so burdensome they can’t or won’t be followed. Maybe a better example, let’s say NZ institutes a $50,000 fine per each occurrence of misuse of personal information collected per their requirements. Now a small business owner could find out they are facing a $250,000 fine and bankruptcy because of one horny employee violating their specific trading instructions. What restaurant would ever take that risk? If the government wants to force businesses to collect personal information, it better be prepared to provide secure means of collecting and communicating that information to them. And it should indemnify the businesses for any liability from release of that information that’s not willful or intentional. If the business faithfully follows the rules, punish the perpetrator, not the business owner.