3 ms·
The leak doesn’t provide much. The backlash of sending an email will instantly be way worse than what was actually leaked. Far worse leaks happen routinely from
by skinnymuch 6y ago
The leak doesn’t provide much. The backlash of sending an email will instantly be way worse than what was actually leaked. Far worse leaks happen routinely from big names. However Facebook’s negative reputation would sway so far against it, you’d think Facebook had doxxed every one.
I don’t particularly like Facebook or any big corporation FYI.
- tomxor 6y agoThe backlash of GDPR for not informing users may be far more severe.
- Syonyk 6y agoSure, but if the cost of paying the fines for that is less than the expected loss of revenue from demonstrating, directly, that you can't keep user data safe (to a global audience, not just Europe), it's rational for Facebook to take the fines (of course, arguing via their lawyers as long as possible that they shouldn't be required to pay them - lawyer bills are harder to spin as an admission of guilt). I don't like it, but it makes some level of sense from their perspective. We tend, globally, to prefer "gentle swat on the back of the hand" level penalties for companies that have behaved terribly.
- goatinaboat 6y agoSure, but if the cost of paying the fines for that is less than the expected loss of revenue GDPR allows for fines of up to 4% of global revenue. Unfortunately the agencies that are supposed to enforce it are too feeble to do so.
- hnbad 6y agoI'm pretty sure the GDPR requires notifying affected users in addition to notifying data protection agencies. I haven't seen any public statement about the breach from Facebook, yet alone received any messages from them. Interestingly my phone number seems to have been exposed but not my e-mail address. I don't recall providing my phone number to Facebook although I do recall explicitly being asked to. I do however use WhatsApp. I wonder if there's more to this.