Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in...
by Nextgrid on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:47PM
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> That kind of unbounded massive privacy violation would result in million € fines (if not dozen or hundreds of millions) under GDPR law
No they wouldn't. GDPR enforcement is severely lacking and the regulators tasked with enforcing it are either incompetent or corrupt.
The notion that the fault would completely be on a "Belarusian teenager stealing your identity" and no responsibility whatsoever on people organising a system of massive private data collection in the first place, and then not even able to keep such data secure, is ludicrous. And even when you know that privacy invasion is attempted all the time you don't reach the conclusion that at the very least better securing the data would be needed, that task I'm not sure can be done by any "Belarusian teenager" - and that task has de-facto not be done by whoever is collecting and maintaining the private data that has leaked and is still leaking.