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Info leaks have negligible provable harms. It's a real moral hazard. It's not that there aren't harms, it's that it's nearly impossible to link any harms back t
by flerchin 5y ago
Info leaks have negligible provable harms. It's a real moral hazard. It's not that there aren't harms, it's that it's nearly impossible to link any harms back to any specific leak.
- goodcanadian 5y agoWhich is why automatic defined liability for the leak might be the solution to the problem.
- lmkg 5y agoWell, CCPA started doing this in California. In the event of a data breach, the company can be sued for actual damages, or statutory damages of $100-750 per affected consumer. As a point of comparison: If CCPA had been in effect during the Equifax incident, the statutory damages only for California residents would have been $1.5 billion minimum. As far as I can tell for Wikipedia, the settlement they agreed to with 48 states combines to about 1/3 of that amount.
- adolph 5y agoIf a multistage class action lawsuit is settled for billions and people harmed receive only free credit monitoring gift cards, is our sense of justice served?
- bluGill 5y agoI don't care so much about justice as nobody does it again. If the lawyers make a ton once and there isn't a next time I'm happy. Well better would be it doesn't happen again
- adolph 5y agoIf an info leak occurs in a data center and no one is harmed, does it make any liability?
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoHaving your personal information leaked is harm. Difficult to quantify harm, but harm none the less.
- adolph 5y agoAt this point in time, what could be leaked about nearly anyone that hasn’t already been leaked?
- howmayiannoyyou 5y agoStatutory damages exist precisely for this reason.