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I really hope this blows back hard on Quora. We need dramatic examples of companies' valuations being hit for making such privacy violations on a whim. Google

I really hope this blows back hard on Quora. We need dramatic examples of companies' valuations being hit for making such privacy violations on a whim. Google and Facebook can mostly get away with similar violations since the large majority of users simply don't care and/or don't understand the privacy concerns, but maybe it's not too late to lash back at relatively insignificant companies like Quora for blatant disregard of privacy...

spinchange 14y ago
>We need dramatic examples of companies' valuations being hit for making such privacy violations on a whim. They don't exist. Only a small subset of users even care and investors and stakeholders just want their site to succeed any way it can. While not expressly privacy-related, take a look at charts of LinkedIn stock after their massive security breach where it was revealed they weren't salting password hashes. Not only did it not dip, it rose on the news and held those gains until after the story was out of the news.