• minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Why companies aren’t fined for every customers data they didn’t secure properly is beyond me. This should cost them a specific sum per customer or part of their annual global revenue. Make it hurt.

    Otherwise they have no reason to spend money to properly secure people’s data.

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      8 months ago

      Devils advocate: It would give them additional insensitive to cover up the fact it happend.

      My 2 cents: companies cant be trusted with your data and local data containers which you control, can give or reject limited acces to need to become the norm.

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        8 months ago

        Cant cover it up if the hackers take credit. And with the info collected it won’t take much time to pin point where it came from.

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          8 months ago

          Its happened before that leaks where covered up for months though, gives them time to sell stocks before public backlash .

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        8 months ago

        I mean yeah it probably would. But that’s essentially just blackmail.

        For there should be is an entire branch of government dedicated to regulating and auditing data security in large corporations.