Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data
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#2Wyden seems like he's been on top of the ball recently.
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#3“Oops, we didn’t notice, but it’s another to be a company like Facebook that takes your private messages and sells that data. It takes your address, it takes your interest, it takes your browsing history and sells that to people without your permission Wydens.”
Does anyone know what context he refers to? I wasn’t aware that Facebook ever directly sold private messages. Same for address, interest...
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#4Quit expecting governments to save you. The easiest fix for this problem is to stop using these products! No matter how much bad news comes out about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon using your data in bad ways -- people still keep using them. If enough people quit, this will stop or a competitor will rise up who doesn't do this stuff.
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#5Quit expecting governments to save you. The easiest fix for this problem is to stop using these products! No matter how much bad news comes out about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon using your data in bad ways -- people still keep using them. If enough people quit, this will stop or a competitor will rise up who doesn't do this stuff.
We should also demand for more control over what data our browsers send out.
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#6If a human would have gone to jail for the crime the company should have its charter revoked for at least an equal amount of time. Even the giants.
Usually at best a corporation gets a fine and it just becomes a cost of doing business. Everyone involved including the government profits from the crime.
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#7Quit expecting governments to save you. The easiest fix for this problem is to stop using these products! No matter how much bad news comes out about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon using your data in bad ways -- people still keep using them. If enough people quit, this will stop or a competitor will rise up who doesn't do this stuff.
"Let the invisible hand of the market fix it" is not something that has a history of actually working on near-monopoly actors.
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#8About fucking time. Until legislation like this passes, nothing will change. I'm glad at least one of our senators has the balls to actually hold CEOs and companies accountable for their atrocious actions. This behavior should be criminal and this should be just the start. It doesn't make sense to send petty thieves to jail and hard labor, yet reward CEOs who cause millions or billions of dollars of damage to our society with gigantic resignation packages. These CEOs should languish in jail and find out for themselves what it's like to work for pennies a day. I'd bet any amount of money that once CEOs are actually held responsible for their reprehensible actions, things will change in regards to security and other overlooked practices. Once a company's profit and the CEO's resignation package can be clawed back with fines, these CEOs will think twice. Perhaps as a society we may rethink the idea of limited (in reality that just means nonexistent) liability corporations where even the officers who have the power of life or death over millions have no repercussions when they inevitably abuse and misuse that power to hurt and even kill people. That will probably take a lot longer, however. Until then, the best way to commit a crime and get away with it (including murder, poisoning, and other atrocious crimes) is still being a company executive.
Re: Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data
#9Quit expecting governments to save you. The easiest fix for this problem is to stop using these products! No matter how much bad news comes out about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon using your data in bad ways -- people still keep using them. If enough people quit, this will stop or a competitor will rise up who doesn't do this stuff.
Most people don’t know about these issues or don’t care. Also how do you know what company uses your data in bad ways? There are probably plenty of others who do shady stuff you never hear about. We need privacy laws so products that are on the market can be safely used. Otherwise let’s abolish food safety rules and tell people just not to eat at places where food with salmonella gets sold.
Re: Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data
#10Quit expecting governments to save you. The easiest fix for this problem is to stop using these products! No matter how much bad news comes out about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon using your data in bad ways -- people still keep using them. If enough people quit, this will stop or a competitor will rise up who doesn't do this stuff.
"Let the invisible hand of the market fix it" is not something that has a history of actually working on near-monopoly actors.
How do you even know who does bad stuff?