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> Your home was broken into and they stole the stack of personal records for your small business' employees that you left sitting on the dining room table? Yes,
by nexuist 6y ago
> Your home was broken into and they stole the stack of personal records for your small business' employees that you left sitting on the dining room table? Yes, you should be liable for that because you were not the only victim and those others were victimized due to your own negligence. The documents were not properly secured, was your home properly secured as well given the sensitive material you were housing there?
This is one of those ideas that seems to be made in good faith but ultimately harms the competition far more than it harms the industry leaders. Twitter can afford cameras and alarm systems for its data centers; I can’t. Twitter can afford to hire armed guards; I can’t.
The ultimate end result of a policy like this is that people will simply kill anyone trespassing on their property; after all, who knows what documents they may have seen or confidential records they may have exfiltrated. It’s way too heavy handed.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago> Twitter can afford cameras and alarm systems for its data centers; I can’t. Twitter is also a much bigger target, and it makes sense to apply very different standards to what "reasonable" security is.
- nkrisc 6y ago> The ultimate end result of a policy like this is that people will simply kill anyone trespassing on their property; That will probably get you more jail time than whatever other liabilities you might have had, which realistically maybe would have just been civil anyway, were some policy like this to become real. But put another way, in context of business collecting personal user data: if you can't secure it, don't collect it. If your business isn't viable then, well, tough shit.