Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
by mtgx on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:31PM
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And the fine should always be bigger than whatever the company pocketed from the "crime" during that time.
I think it was AT&T or Verizon that got fined the "record" $3 million by the FTC for tracking users' browsing behaviors for like 2 or 3 years.
The FTC should have asked (subpoena I should say) the company for reports on how much money it made per user from that tracking for the whole period, and then charge it a multiples of that.
Did it make $1 billion? Charge it $2 or $3 billion.
And do this sort of stuff across industries with a regular occurrence, so that companies can "expect" such audits, and so they don't just think it's a one in a decade fine that maybe one company in the industry will get.
I think you'll see abusive behavior drastically reduce.
I think it was AT&T or Verizon that got fined the "record" $3 million by the FTC for tracking users' browsing behaviors for like 2 or 3 years.
The FTC should have asked (subpoena I should say) the company for reports on how much money it made per user from that tracking for the whole period, and then charge it a multiples of that.
Did it make $1 billion? Charge it $2 or $3 billion.
And do this sort of stuff across industries with a regular occurrence, so that companies can "expect" such audits, and so they don't just think it's a one in a decade fine that maybe one company in the industry will get.
I think you'll see abusive behavior drastically reduce.