DirtyRat
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Yet another big company data breach ... https://www.yahoo.com/tech/500-million-yahoo-accounts-hacked-140000708.html
Its long been understood that a business has an obligation to provide some degree of reasonable security for its customers and employees -- lights in a parking lot at night, security cameras, security guards, etc.
Organizations (whether companies or government bureaus ... the VA got hacked a few times) play fast and loose with private information -- your credit card numbers, social security numbers, home and billing addresses, everything identity thieves need all in one big database. And no, you aren't safe if you only shop in 'brick and mortar' stores as a lot of Target stores found out the hard way.
If organizations don't take adequate measures to keep private customer/employee data protected that imperils their employees' or customers' identity and credit scores, shouldn't they be liable for that private information being inadequately secured against hackers resulting in a private person's identity being stolen?
I'm a big fan of the Internet, I've been buying things online since the 1990s. However, it does seem to me that organizations treat data security as something to take shortcuts on, and to not give private customer/employee data the same regard they do their actual trade secrets.
What do you guys think? Should organizations harboring your private information be responsible for keeping it secure and held to account if they don't?
Its long been understood that a business has an obligation to provide some degree of reasonable security for its customers and employees -- lights in a parking lot at night, security cameras, security guards, etc.
Organizations (whether companies or government bureaus ... the VA got hacked a few times) play fast and loose with private information -- your credit card numbers, social security numbers, home and billing addresses, everything identity thieves need all in one big database. And no, you aren't safe if you only shop in 'brick and mortar' stores as a lot of Target stores found out the hard way.
If organizations don't take adequate measures to keep private customer/employee data protected that imperils their employees' or customers' identity and credit scores, shouldn't they be liable for that private information being inadequately secured against hackers resulting in a private person's identity being stolen?
I'm a big fan of the Internet, I've been buying things online since the 1990s. However, it does seem to me that organizations treat data security as something to take shortcuts on, and to not give private customer/employee data the same regard they do their actual trade secrets.
What do you guys think? Should organizations harboring your private information be responsible for keeping it secure and held to account if they don't?