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Re:Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from ... by ipaddr on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:03PM (#40567524)
A simple tax on every personal record you hold would work.
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Re:Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from ... by robertonoa on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:08PM (#40568755)
While in this collective pipe dream, why not just make it a felony to have unauthorized possession or transmission of this data, make sentencing gravity based on attributes like unsecured, breached, willfully sold, etc?
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Re:Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from ... by nox101 on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:06PM (#40568150)
That sounds like unintended consequences to me.
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Re:Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from ... by flemhans on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:04PM (#40567543)
Could be paid to the person instead of the government
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Re:Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from ... by fwip on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:17PM (#40567661)
Would be nice, but wouldn't that limit the taxable set of data records to those that have enough info to route payment to? Either paid directly by the company, or enough information for the government to identify you.
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