Vertafore said that it is providing a year of free credit monitoring and identity restoration services to all Texas residents whose driverâ(TM)s license data was exposed.
That and four dollars will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Data breach lawsuits often fail because proving harm is nebulous, and despite repeatedly routine carelessness with other peoples private information, penalties for security sloppiness never seem to get ramped up by our governors.
Until penalties for these infractions become much more severe, there will be no industry willingness to spend on security... something like if the penalty for a breach is credit card related, you can't accept those for payment for X months or until you sort it out to an oversight board's satisfaction.
Until penalties for these infractions become much more severe,
Severe? You could ask for a monetary penalty, but that's literally chump change. How about something seemingly more effective?
Let's "let" the CEO of the company literally visit each and every user in their exposed database (it's not like the names and addresses are unknown) and personally apologize to each and every one. Every. One. Of. Them. Personally. Not a proxy, not his secretary, HIM.
He shouldn't be upset -- at least that'll get him out of meetings for awhile. But driving's a hassle, so
I totally agree..
It used to be "shoot all the lawyers", but can we also now go after incompetent DBAs, and their bosses up the chain to the CEO and Board of Directors?
Or as a less violent alternative, we release ALL their personal information into the wild including the SSN, stock broker and bank accounts numbers and their home, vacation house addresses and their license plates and tax returns over the last 5 years including all sub schedules. In the case of the CEO / BOD or Governor/President and the
How about this: 3rd parties who grant credit are solely responsible for identity verification, and 100% liable for all damages arising from failures in that regard. As it is now, if 'too big to fail bank' has sales commissions on loans, quotas for underwriters and 'scales back' verification to save cost then when the expected happens : underwriters give loans to anything that moves, then the law considers the person the underwriters filed fake loans for the 'responsible party' who must repay the bank/has ru
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the
pens will multiply instead of disappear.
Damage payment offer creates umbrage (Score:5, Informative)
Vertafore said that it is providing a year of free credit monitoring and identity restoration services to all Texas residents whose driverâ(TM)s license data was exposed.
That and four dollars will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Data breach lawsuits often fail because proving harm is nebulous, and despite repeatedly routine carelessness with other peoples private information, penalties for security sloppiness never seem to get ramped up by our governors.
Until penalties for these infractions become much more severe, there will be no industry willingness to spend on security... something like if the penalty for a breach is credit card related, you can't accept those for payment for X months or until you sort it out to an oversight board's satisfaction.
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Until penalties for these infractions become much more severe,
Severe? You could ask for a monetary penalty, but that's literally chump change. How about something seemingly more effective?
Let's "let" the CEO of the company literally visit each and every user in their exposed database (it's not like the names and addresses are unknown) and personally apologize to each and every one. Every. One. Of. Them. Personally. Not a proxy, not his secretary, HIM.
He shouldn't be upset -- at least that'll get him out of meetings for awhile. But driving's a hassle, so
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It used to be "shoot all the lawyers", but can we also now go after incompetent DBAs, and their bosses up the chain to the CEO and Board of Directors?
Or as a less violent alternative, we release ALL their personal information into the wild including the SSN, stock broker and bank accounts numbers and their home, vacation house addresses and their license plates and tax returns over the last 5 years including all sub schedules. In the case of the CEO / BOD or Governor/President and the
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