Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed

Re:Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, ... by briandear on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:59PM (#17830252)

But the person affected should get the money, not the government.

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Re:Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, ... by jstarfish on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:07PM (#17830300)

While that's fair, it should actually be the other way around.

Let the government keep the money. They'll be more inclined to actually enforce the law. We see how aggressively they police drugs when they stand to benefit from civil asset forfeiture.

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Re:Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, ... by vtange on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:08PM (#17830307)

This would incentivize people to dish out private information on insecure platforms for the sole purpose of baiting compensation.

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