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I wonder how much more organizations would value PII if we could legally demand all of the PII of the executive officers for that same price.

Terr_ 11mo ago
Or if the company had statutory liability for any leaks or misuse of material in their control.
constantcrying 11mo ago
According to the statement all university employees data was leaked. This of course would include all of the administration, up to the president.
itopaloglu83 11mo ago
Not much, proper PII sustainment over decades (generally) is too demanding for universities unless they have proper resources and knowhow as well. The US banking system has some blame here as well, just knowing someone’s bank account details shouldn’t let anyone transfer money out of it. IBAN system is quite good at this, that people just share their account numbers with each other and even some merchants like restaurants accept payment through IBAN.
- amypetrik8 11mo ago
  while mbitch3020 makes a good point about holding people to the standards they themselves hold other to - in the case of universities, I'm pretty sure if every sub department of a department of a branch of many universities has one or more diversity commissar officers... if universities can afford that they're not hurting to hire up a bunch of data integrity commissars
  - itopaloglu83 11mo ago
    You have a point, it's about the priorities, and different choices or distributions can be made. Though, I still think knowing just a small amount of information about a person should not have such a high monetary value and banking has a lot of blame on this. It's also about the number of applications being made across the campus, so I don't know how much a handful of people can review or improve things. Every department and school has multiple applications written by students or enthusiastic faculty members, or purchased from various vendors. Seeing an environment like this, one could quickly assume, somehow correctly, they're just hired to be the neck to hang, and not make much changes.
mattmaroon 11mo ago
I’d assume the executive officers are just as affected as anyone else. Nobody is safe from the data harvesting/sales going on anymore.
- fooqux 11mo ago
  Yeah, sure. Only difference is they have millions/billions to pay for professionals to guard them and watch for anything out of the norm.
- esseph 11mo ago
  When you have money there's a lot of ways to obscure ownership of things in the case of public records disclosure.

Terr_ 11mo ago

Or if the company had statutory liability for any leaks or misuse of material in their control.

constantcrying 11mo ago

According to the statement all university employees data was leaked. This of course would include all of the administration, up to the president.

itopaloglu83 11mo ago

Not much, proper PII sustainment over decades (generally) is too demanding for universities unless they have proper resources and knowhow as well. The US banking system has some blame here as well, just knowing someone’s bank account details shouldn’t let anyone transfer money out of it. IBAN system is quite good at this, that people just share their account numbers with each other and even some merchants like restaurants accept payment through IBAN.

amypetrik8 11mo ago
while mbitch3020 makes a good point about holding people to the standards they themselves hold other to - in the case of universities, I'm pretty sure if every sub department of a department of a branch of many universities has one or more diversity commissar officers... if universities can afford that they're not hurting to hire up a bunch of data integrity commissars
- itopaloglu83 11mo ago
  You have a point, it's about the priorities, and different choices or distributions can be made. Though, I still think knowing just a small amount of information about a person should not have such a high monetary value and banking has a lot of blame on this. It's also about the number of applications being made across the campus, so I don't know how much a handful of people can review or improve things. Every department and school has multiple applications written by students or enthusiastic faculty members, or purchased from various vendors. Seeing an environment like this, one could quickly assume, somehow correctly, they're just hired to be the neck to hang, and not make much changes.

mattmaroon 11mo ago

I’d assume the executive officers are just as affected as anyone else. Nobody is safe from the data harvesting/sales going on anymore.

fooqux 11mo ago
Yeah, sure. Only difference is they have millions/billions to pay for professionals to guard them and watch for anything out of the norm.
esseph 11mo ago
When you have money there's a lot of ways to obscure ownership of things in the case of public records disclosure.