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Make it absolutely, unavoidably painful to be caught with private data, to the tune of increasing percentages of the total value of a company, like 3% per day o

Make it absolutely, unavoidably painful to be caught with private data, to the tune of increasing percentages of the total value of a company, like 3% per day of offenses. Make it retroactive - get caught running illegal data harvesting for a month and you're liquidated. Make 80-90% paid directly to the victims and 10% to a whistle-blower if there is one, and the enforcement agency. Require jail time for egregious offenses, and include any managing bodies and boards. Make liability apply to individuals regardless of any other consideration so the owners can't just bankrupt and run. Make it "fuck around and find out" painful. We'd throw the book at people creeping into our homes and vehicles and places of work to gather data on us in person. The fact that they're using barely perceived surveillance apparatus shouldn't factor into how we treat it.

headsoup 5y ago
Except I think there's a pretty good track record of companies knowing exactly how to get around these with shells, sub-contracts to overseas companies, too many hops and hand passes, loopholes, etc. Or you get fraudulent 'whistle-blowers' inserted by the competition to reduce said competition. It would be better for it to be painful for people to actually enter their data, so that they really must want to, further then have to manually accept for each individual party that will hold that data. But of course that is unpalatable to most any degree because convenience is king... We keep wanting to fix the exit gate because that's 'easier' than the entry one.