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A comment on Librarian's Letter to Google Security. Parent comment

Re:Librarian's Letter to Google Security by bawolff on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:21PM (#32310126)
If google's products cause harm, they also get recalled and/or google gets sued.
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Re:Librarian's Letter to Google Security by lostlogin on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:22PM (#32310883)
You seriously believe in business karma? Apply it to oil, arms dealing, pill pushing pharma. It may happen, but the profit was still there.

The article states some types of harm causes, and those people are struggling for an few dollars, they can’t sue Google.

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Re:Librarian's Letter to Google Security by bawolff on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:32PM (#32314250)
My position is that google is subject to the same laws as physical goods companies, and held to the same standard as they are for product recalls. No more, no less.

I do not claim that some sort of utopia of ultimate consumer protection exists. It does not for google, nor for physical goods companies.

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Re:Librarian's Letter to Google Security by reaperducer on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:37PM (#32311731)
If google's products cause harm, they also get recalled and/or google gets sued.

Yeah, lawyers are just lining up to represent those homeless folks, elderly grandmothers, and people who just don't get tech.

Except they're not.

Clearly you've never been poor.

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Re:Librarian's Letter to Google Security by bawolff on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:38PM (#32314273)
> Yeah, lawyers are just lining up to represent those homeless folks, elderly grandmothers, and people who just don't get tech.

Represent them for what precisely? The tort of not providing a good user interface?

I don't think wealth has much to do with the lack of google being sued here. Wealth may buy better lawyers, but it doesn't create grounds for a lawsuit out of thin air.

> Clearly you've never been poor.

Life often sucks and is not fair. It is not google's responsibility to eradicate poverty

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Re:Librarian's Letter to Google Security by jjav on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:52PM (#32310513)
The librarian's letter that we're commenting on describes many concrete ways in which people are getting harmed and google getting away with doing nothing.
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