EDIT: It’s not that bad. They uploaded email addresses of users to facebook for retargeting. Not sure if my comment still applies in this particular case but I’

EDIT: It’s not that bad. They uploaded email addresses of users to facebook for retargeting. Not sure if my comment still applies in this particular case but I’m leaving it for posterity. > Between 2017 and 2018, Respondent uploaded lists of over 7 million Visitors' and Users' email addresses to Facebook. Facebook matched over 4 million of these Visitors and Users with their Facebook user IDs, linking their use of the Service for mental health treatment with their Facebook accounts. It might be too emotional but in cases of a violations like that I feel like slapping a fine on a business just increases their costs without accountability. What I would expect from a country leaders is to show accountability for actions and find the person/people responsible for this atrocity and challenge them criminally and not only civilly which seems to be the case (FTC is a civil agency AFAIK). I believe that when somebody decided it’s okay to share this kind of data or didn’t stop it from happening they should probably be temporarily restrained from the society (jail) and reformed. To me it’s no surprise a lot of psychology and psychotherapy is still very married to paper for notes and such. It’s so sensitive data that its not worth the risk to use any internet connected electronics for that. disclaimer: I’m European, with some insight into how US works but I am not affected.