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Can I sue Facebook for leaking my number? Serious question.

• kube-system 6y ago
  What damages have you incurred?
  • bogwog 6y ago
    Identity theft most likely, and the consequences arising from that.
    • kube-system 6y ago
      What is the monetary amount, and do you have evidence of the theft?
      • bogwog 6y ago
        I'm speaking hypothetically of course, I haven't actually been affected by this leak (so far). But that doesn't seem hard to prove at all. At the very least, you could claim that Facebook's leak forced you to pay for identity theft protection/monitoring as a very reasonable precaution, and whatever that cost you would be the damages. Then of course there's the possibility that someone did actually steal your identity and used it to drain money from your accounts, or simply caused you to waste a bunch of time hunting down for example fake accounts opened using your information, credit cards, etc. And I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure somewhere in all this fuckupery you can throw in some punitive damages.
        • astura 6y ago
          What? How you gonna steal someone's identity just by knowing their phone number? You know that's something that hundreds of people and organizations already know?
          • bogwog 6y ago
            It's not just their phone numbers, I've looked at the data myself and it's this: * full name * phone number * country/state/city of residence * country/state/city of birth * relationship status * date of birth * employer * email address That's enough to do identity theft, enough to scam people (just look up Jim Browning's various videos on youtube), and with social engineering techniques the sky is the limit on what can be done with this information.
  • hypertele-Xii 6y ago
    This page [1] suggests that "non-material damages (for example distress)" are sufficient to "claim compensation from the website [...] as they have breached the data protection law by not providing adequate security". I've gotten spam calls since the breach, sometimes in the middle of the night while trying to sleep. That's distress. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/can-i-claim-compensation_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...