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Exposing sensitive information this stupidly should be criminally negligent. People use these platforms under an implicit trust arrangement. I suspect if I mad

Exposing sensitive information this stupidly should be criminally negligent. People use these platforms under an implicit trust arrangement. I suspect if I made myself look like a successful trader and told people I was a trader then they would expect I'm a trader and I can be invested with. When I lose them money I'd be charged with some serious crimes for pretending to be a trader.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
Call your Congressperson. Without laws that create incentives to treat this data more carefully (think GDPR), nothing changes.
- MaximumYComb 6y ago
  I'm not in the US, however with the global internet breaches often affect people from many countries.
  - solstice 6y ago
    That's true, but adopting that stance seems to be a case of "the perfect being the enemy of the good"
- echelon 6y ago
  With increased regulation, comes an increased barrier to entry. I'm absolutely for protecting privacy, and I hate that companies like Facebook and Google peddle our personal details for profit. I worry that unless we are careful, however, that we'll wind up creating barriers to bootstrapping. I don't want EU-style cookie banners, required GDPR data export plumbing I want privacy. But I also want an escape trajectory and ability to do thins on my own as a sole proprietorship or startup. I don't want to have to work at one of the big firms because they are the only ones that can pay for lawyers and auditing. Maybe we scale regulation with the size of a business? That seems fairer than prohibiting small startups from getting off the ground.
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  - mbreese 6y ago
    Maybe barriers for personal information isn’t a bad thing? In order to store personal information, you should at least be competent enough to keep it safe. I don’t think having some kind of barrier is too much to ask for a company of any size to have to reach in order to show that they are competent to securely store the data. I’m not saying the barrier should be great, but something (anything!) that makes keeping personal data secure a priority for a company is a good thing. How many instances of this kind of lax security have we seen? Perhaps if there were a few extra hoops, then we’d not have seen as many.
    - echelon 6y ago
      What if it's a teenager's side project?
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      - MaximumYComb 6y ago
        If a teenager has managed to gather personal data on 10000 people, including sensitive data, then they damn well should be able to protect it.
        likeclockwork 6y ago
        Do the 10,000 people who gave their information away to a teenager have no responsibility here?
      - rad_gruchalski 6y ago
        What if a teenager wants to open a bank as a side project, say Monzo/N26 like?
  - Pfhreak 6y ago
_bxg1 6y ago
That's because trading, unlike the running of a large software service, is regulated.

toomuchtodo 6y ago

Call your Congressperson. Without laws that create incentives to treat this data more carefully (think GDPR), nothing changes.

MaximumYComb 6y ago
I'm not in the US, however with the global internet breaches often affect people from many countries.
- solstice 6y ago
  That's true, but adopting that stance seems to be a case of "the perfect being the enemy of the good"
echelon 6y ago
With increased regulation, comes an increased barrier to entry. I'm absolutely for protecting privacy, and I hate that companies like Facebook and Google peddle our personal details for profit. I worry that unless we are careful, however, that we'll wind up creating barriers to bootstrapping. I don't want EU-style cookie banners, required GDPR data export plumbing I want privacy. But I also want an escape trajectory and ability to do thins on my own as a sole proprietorship or startup. I don't want to have to work at one of the big firms because they are the only ones that can pay for lawyers and auditing. Maybe we scale regulation with the size of a business? That seems fairer than prohibiting small startups from getting off the ground.
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- mbreese 6y ago
  Maybe barriers for personal information isn’t a bad thing? In order to store personal information, you should at least be competent enough to keep it safe. I don’t think having some kind of barrier is too much to ask for a company of any size to have to reach in order to show that they are competent to securely store the data. I’m not saying the barrier should be great, but something (anything!) that makes keeping personal data secure a priority for a company is a good thing. How many instances of this kind of lax security have we seen? Perhaps if there were a few extra hoops, then we’d not have seen as many.
  - echelon 6y ago
    What if it's a teenager's side project?
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    - MaximumYComb 6y ago
      If a teenager has managed to gather personal data on 10000 people, including sensitive data, then they damn well should be able to protect it.
      - likeclockwork 6y ago
        Do the 10,000 people who gave their information away to a teenager have no responsibility here?
    - rad_gruchalski 6y ago
      What if a teenager wants to open a bank as a side project, say Monzo/N26 like?
- Pfhreak 6y ago

_bxg1 6y ago

That's because trading, unlike the running of a large software service, is regulated.