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Who would get sued though? The school? So we'd be suing ourselves?
by throwaway823882 5y ago
Who would get sued though? The school? So we'd be suing ourselves?
- analog31 5y agoIn a sense, we'd be suing ourselves over this incident, but at the same time the precedent would serve to discipline other school districts into erasing personal information stored in computer readable form before it can be stolen.
- cortesoft 5y agoWhat does it mean to “discipline” a school district? Why would suing a school district incentivize them to change their behavior? They don’t personally have to pay the fine, the they would have to do the work for securing/deleting the data.
- analog31 5y agoThe threat of being penalized through the tort system encourages public awareness and incentivizes districts to do the right thing. That's what I mean by discipline.
- bogwog 5y agoAre you kidding? A lawsuit is going to hit them where it hurts most: the budget. People will lose their jobs over it, so there is very strong incentive for the decision makers not to end up in that situation again.
- fn-mote 5y agoAt least in some cases, when a school district breaks federal law and loses a lawsuit, the outcome is a consent decree with $__MM to be allocated for education about the law and rights. Police misconduct gives rise to lawsuits. I'm sure one of the hopes of the plantiffs is that they change the system. So, there is some precedent for lawsuits against public bodies in an attempt to change their behavior. I am somewhat skeptical about their utility in affecting institutional change, but there is definitely research on the subject and not just HN comments.
- alasdair_ 5y ago> What does it mean to “discipline” a school district? Fire the people responsible and make them unable to work for a district for five years.