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Re:I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Sho... by patmcc on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:29PM (#15752225)
>>>I disagree. "You can't use the collected data anymore" is a million times harder to enforce than "pay us ten billion dollars."

Not especially hard; you send in auditors to delete the collected data from all servers. Oh, that kills the company? Too bad.

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Re:I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Sho... by nathan_long on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:19PM (#15752632)
It wouldn't fly. And the data may have been "laundered" intentionally or not - used to send emails, get new customers and social media contacts, etc. It may be hard to even trace anymore.
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