So I got a notice from Ticketmaster that my identity was accessed by an intruder and my name, contact info and /encrypted/ payment info was compromised. These notices are more and more common. Why aren’t companies accountable for damages when they fail to protect all the myriad data they collect on people without consent? I never asked them to store these things…

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Class action lawsuits never work because they plea deal into some shitty number that does no damage.

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      6 months ago

      Class action lawsuits are very rarely lucrative for the harmed party but they often result in sizeable penalties for companies. They’re essentially just punitive.