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Which is why automatic defined liability for the leak might be the solution to the problem.
by goodcanadian 5y ago
Which 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?