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I do not have much of an internet presence at all - no facebook, instagram, whatsapp, etc. However, my entire identity has been leaked several times over from t

• forgotmypw17 4y ago
  I think this type of legislation will be about as helpful as punishing a toddler for falling over. The root issue is that we are complacently pretending that any entity is capable of ensuring long-term security of a million-datapoint database of valuable information while at the same time thousands of their employees are allowed to work with it.
  • fbdab103 4y ago
    Genuine question, how many big leaks have Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc experienced? If even companies paying top tier rates cannot manage the problem, I am unsure what recourse there is.
    • progman32 4y ago
      Well, right now there is no particularly strong incentive to perform well in this area for anyone (FAANG included), so I'm not sure past performance is indicative of future performance under a hypothetical ultra-strict punishment-happy regime.
  • carom 4y ago
    Yes to the second part, no to the first part. Let's punish these entities until the cost of storing (and leaking) my personal data is too high for them to stomach.
  • T-Winsnes 4y ago
    I tend to disagree, it's risk based. If it's incredibly expensive to get it wrong, you start weighing up if it's worth storing all that data.
  • kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
    Congress acted swiftly to protect their video rental history. Blockbuster never had a major breach despite being available to store clerks.
  • silisili 4y ago
    The companies shouldn't be storing it, full stop. I really hope they levy enormous fines, so much so companies are afraid to store much data, and punt that to a third party for liability reasons. That third party, in a perfect world, would by nature have to have some of the best of the best, and take this seriously. My old boss was working in this space a decade ago. Private data brokers you control, that companies would have to ask for info, pending your approval and such. As you might imagine in the era of sell everything you can, the idea never took off.
    • TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago
      How are you supposed to do business with anyone if you can't keep a record of who you're doing business with?
      • silisili 4y ago
        Well, you keep a record obviously, just not full data. In a broker scenario, the company would access it as and when needed, on a permission basis. The cool thing about such a model is that if and when you move, change phone numbers, employment, etc, you'd only have to update it in one place! The last time I moved, I think I had to change it in about 20 places. Why does every company need to independently save my address?
  • bee_rider 4y ago
    I don’t think we need to do it in this particular case, but unlike a toddler we should be fine with punishing a company into non-existence. Companies are just ideas that exist to help society run more smoothly, if one racks up enough penalties that it goes under, that’s good enough proof that it isn’t doing its job.
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