Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
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Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#2Prison time for this is madness.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#3Prison time for this is madness.
It reads to me like the prison time in this bill is reserved for the crime of knowingly mis-certifying annual reports to the FTC on data protection (ie, for defrauding the government) --- those reports are also only required from businesses with $1B+ of revenue. The rest of the penalties in the bill seem to take the form of liability under FTC's "Unfair Trade Practices" authority.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#4Prison time for this is madness.
I disagree. The current standard is that privacy and security are only so important as to prevent law suits unless there is law that says otherwise. That is a pretty low bar.
With this privacy and security must be taken seriously from the start. I am of the opinion that wanton neglect that results in massive consumer harm (think Equifax hack) should warrant prison time.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#5My pet theory is this is firing a shell across the bow of BigCorp. Telling them change is coming. Maybe this won’t pass, but be prepared to be held more accountable.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#6Prison time for this is madness.
I think there are states in America where you can go to prison for stealing a pack of bubble gum.
So I won't really cry for the targets here.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#7Prison time for this is madness.
I disagree. It's time to start setting an example for white collar crime.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#8Prison time for this is madness.
I think there are states in America where you can go to prison for stealing a pack of bubble gum. So I won't really cry for the targets here.
>Number of people arrested for a marijuana law violation in 2017: 659,700
http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics
Yeah, I'm not going to even bat an eye about millionaires and billionaires going to jail for actual crimes and damage done to significant parts of the population. We need to start putting more millionaires and billionaires in jail for crimes instead of black teenagers for having 2 grams of weed in their pocket.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#9Prison time for this is madness.
When a $30B+ corp sits on a security vulnerability for 14 months while their customer's in K12 and local government sit exposed, something has to change. Student's futures and safety will be impacted.
Re: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill
#10Prison time for this is madness.
I agree.
The journalist who posted the original article was too busy to put a link to the proposed bill. [EDIT: link: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Privacy%2...]
To those who say white collar crime is out of control, I agree, but we don't get it under control by criminalizing new things. We control it through fairer and better enforcement of things that are already illegal.
I strongly suspect the only people criminally prosecuted under such a bill will be patsies, leaving the politically powerful free to continue rear-ending Americans while prosecutors continue to whistle and look the other way, occasionally rounding up (and convicting) the usual suspects to appear busy, and laughing all the way to the bank when they run for higher office and the same politically powerful underwrite their campaigns.