Live data from Hacker News

CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

tonic.ai

1–10 of 179 posts

Re: CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

#5
post #3
post #2

> if a data breach occurs, the law permits consumers to recover up to $750 per incident This is great!

"up to" Are there any guidelines for determining actual compensation?

Presumably it's a scale from

"Leaked (e-mail) adresses"

to

"Leaked nude photographs".

Re: CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

#6
"It defines de-identified as “information that cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer.”"

I'd love to know what they mean by reasonable... I've seen some demos of tech that can do some pretty amazing things at de-de-identifying.

Re: CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

#8
post #4

Great article, until the end. Who uses PII in test data derived from real customers? That's just an absurd practice to begin with, and no one who takes security seriously would even consider doing this.

Small companies that are just starting out may use real data in test environments since it's a bit easier than using mocked data... Honestly this really only holds for companies that also avoid unit/integration tests (which will generally require that data to support the tests be explicitly mocked in some manner)

Since this involves computers nothing above is a hard rule, but it goes along with my experience.

Re: CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

#9
post #5
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"up to" Are there any guidelines for determining actual compensation?

Presumably it's a scale from "Leaked (e-mail) adresses" to "Leaked nude photographs".

I don't mind my nude photographs. I mind if somebody takes loan in my name and dumb bank would send it to collections.

Re: CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

#10

"It defines de-identified as “information that cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer.”" I'd love to know what they mean by reasonable... I've seen some demos of tech that can do some pretty amazing things at de-de-identifying.

So, huge caveat (I'm NOT a lawyer), but right now most interpretations seem to suggest that masking and synthesizing would constitute appropriate deidentification even if a motivated adversary could reverse engineer given appropriate time and resources. Again, this is something that will likely be clarified over time.
Post reply on HN