So I got a notice from Ticketmaster that my identity was accessed by an intruder and my name, contact info and /encrypted/ payment info was compromised. These notices are more and more common. Why aren’t companies accountable for damages when they fail to protect all the myriad data they collect on people without consent? I never asked them to store these things…

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    4 months ago

    Why aren’t companies accountable for damages

    Whatcha gonna do about it…

    That’s why

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      I mean, if we genuinely had a significant amount of local, state and federal law makers that cared about protecting their constituents instead of whatever the fuck they are doing now, we could have some accountability.

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        Their “constituents” are the corporations paying their bills. When was the last time you bought a politician?