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Does Google have any incentive to fight this? I find myself wishing that they would just reply with "No, that is ridiculous." Why, WHY?, would someone be held

by cschep 17y ago

Does Google have any incentive to fight this? I find myself wishing that they would just reply with "No, that is ridiculous." Why, WHY?, would someone be held legally responsible for not replying to an email!? That is the most ridiculous and stupid thing I've ever heard in my life. The bank messed up, we all mess up, but isn't it within his legal right to publicly distribute that list if he wanted? Obviously he didn't, but it's not his problem that they sent it to him! Frustrating. Maybe I should move my email to my own servers.

palish 17y ago
I doubt he would be able to legally distribute the list.
- mikeyur 17y ago
  Plus it wouldn't be fair to the 1300 bank customers who don't know how crappy their bank really is - and how insecure their personal information is.
  - palish 17y ago
    Err.. Offtopic: I can't see how many points the parent comment has. That's weird. I see the uparrow, followed by "by mikeyur 8 hours ago", but the "N points" part is missing.
    - ptomato 17y ago
      http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
- acdha 17y ago
  Perhaps, but unless he signed an NDA or something it's actually pretty hard for the bank. US copyright law gives an implicit license to the recipient - and data cannot be copyrighted so reformatting would actually make that difficult. All, of course, modulo the bank's success in making it expense enough to get their way without a decisive legal position.
zaphar 17y ago
Once he received the email from the bank about the mistake he would be in definite hot water if he distributed the list. I believe even if he hadn't recieved the email from the bank he would still be in trouble if he distributed it but I'm less certain of that. IANAL of course so take this with a grain of salt.