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  • groet@infosec.pubtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Grindr faces massive fine for allegedly sharing “sensitive” user dataEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Fines as a percentage of income is a good idea for individuals but I dont think it works for coorperations.

    A more reasonable approach is:

    • 100% of the money they earned/saved by comiting the crime
    • 100% of all damages caused to other people/cost to clean up results of the crime (includes the cost of investigation and prosecution)
    • a fine that represents the likelihood of getting caught. (If the crime earns me 1mil, the fine is 50mil but I only have a 1% chance to get caught, statistically I should commit the crime as many times as possible because I will end up wining in the end)
    • (optionally) a fine based on the crime. This one might be based on the size of the company. This is the “punishment” part. It probably should be payed by the individuals responsible and not the company.

    This third point is the important one. Cooperations comit crimes because they are reasonable monetary investments. If the expected fines are always higher than the expected earnings, crimes become a bad investment.

  • groet@infosec.pubtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go freeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    While I agree on the facts I want to offer a slightly different (possible) conclusion: a organisation like wikileaks needs resources and supporters. If they are targeted by all the “good guy”-countries and the only one willing to support them is “evil guy” Russia, then they are not in a position to resist. They chose to compromise their integrity instead of just not existing.

    If the western world wants a whistleblower/leaks organisation that follows journalistic integrity and ethics, they need to fund it even if it leaks their own internal documents.