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AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"it’s not known whether the leak came from within the company or one of its vendors."

Isn't it time that big tech companies and their sale of private data get regulated? I see a giant class-action lawsuit in the making here.

[–] Lodra@programming.dev 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is regulated. And there are penalties for violating those regulations. But it’s just not enough. Even a class action lawsuit won’t help the victims. Most of that money goes to lawyers.

Honestly, I don’t expect any of it to change until the penalties are so severe that major companies go under. Aka a corporate death penalty (which the US used to have). But even then, good software security is extremely hard. Almost everyone screws up something.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

Aka a corporate death penalty (which the US used to have). But even then, good software security is extremely hard. Almost everyone screws up something.

So corps would be regularly "executed" because of not getting it right at some point and that leading to such events.

What's bad about that?

Companies are market entities, they are supposed to live for some time and die, so that evolutionary process would work.

Right now it's like titans eating their children, they should die from regulator's axe, ideally at the very moment when mistakes stop being sufficient to kill them.

[–] coolmojo@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It is. The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" in that information. Source