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I just watched the film about Spotify "The Playlist". It took a few minutes before I picked up that it was dubbed. I switched back to Norwegian with English subtitles and the film became instantly enjoyable. All languages hold a beauty. "Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam"
TV series, like the company, is Swedish, so probably that language.
I wonder how much more organizations would value PII if we could legally demand all of the PII of the executive officers for that same price.
I’d assume the executive officers are just as affected as anyone else. Nobody is safe from the data harvesting/sales going on anymore.
> They will not take responsibility for their actions, and they will not compensate you for the damage they caused. They will just offer you a small amount of money and hope that you will forget about it. Paying for a wrongful action is taking reponsibility and compensating. But also "for the damage they caused" - what's the damage if the info is already out there? > The basic problem is that they do not care about u…
Author here. What I mean is that for an institution of higher education and intellectual research, the bar for ethical action should be higher. An apology (with guarantees and plans for improvement with oversight) is better than put a low price and call it cost of doing business. The damages or negative consequences are going to happen no matter what as information is already out there. My point is not about the mone…
Who is the highest paid state employee in Minnesota? Hint: he works for umn.edu … [1]
Who controls the largest budget at umn?
Who drives the largest revenue for the state university program and hires and fires the other highest paid employees of the state?
I am sorry to say that your expectations of the sports media enterprise that happens to also be a university are misplaced.
Big conference universities are development leagues for the NFL and that is where expectations for behavior should be calibrated.
[1] PJ Fleck - $7M annual salary in 2025.
I wonder how much more organizations would value PII if we could legally demand all of the PII of the executive officers for that same price.
I’d assume the executive officers are just as affected as anyone else. Nobody is safe from the data harvesting/sales going on anymore.
I wonder how much more organizations would value PII if we could legally demand all of the PII of the executive officers for that same price.
Not much, proper PII sustainment over decades (generally) is too demanding for universities unless they have proper resources and knowhow as well. The US banking system has some blame here as well, just knowing someone’s bank account details shouldn’t let anyone transfer money out of it. IBAN system is quite good at this, that people just share their account numbers with each other and even some merchants like restau…
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Well, there's got to be some estimate put on it. It's obviously not worth adding a $5 trillion piece to a vehicle to make it safer, and it's obviously worth spending an extra 0.05¢ to make it safer.
> in case of lawsuit They valued it in terms of legal fees and possible "compensation" (yay dad is dead but we got 5k), no lawsuit and your value is exaclty zero.
I mean, I put a price on the value of my own life, and even on the value of the life of my children. Hence why I'll take a car trip instead of always aiming to fly on a commercial common carrier, even though the latter would be safer.
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Not much, proper PII sustainment over decades (generally) is too demanding for universities unless they have proper resources and knowhow as well. The US banking system has some blame here as well, just knowing someone’s bank account details shouldn’t let anyone transfer money out of it. IBAN system is quite good at this, that people just share their account numbers with each other and even some merchants like restau…
while mbitch3020 makes a good point about holding people to the standards they themselves hold other to - in the case of universities, I'm pretty sure if every sub department of a department of a branch of many universities has one or more diversity commissar officers... if universities can afford that they're not hurting to hire up a bunch of data integrity commissars
It's also about the number of applications being made across the campus, so I don't know how much a handful of people can review or improve things. Every department and school has multiple applications written by students or enthusiastic faculty members, or purchased from various vendors.
Seeing an environment like this, one could quickly assume, somehow correctly, they're just hired to be the neck to hang, and not make much changes.