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They made the conscious decision to monetize personal data belonging to more than a hundred million people. That means they should take every measure available to make sure something that sensitive is not released.

If this was the US Airforce who lost an armed nuclear ICBM the commanding officer who was ok with this ”whoopsie” would have to explain him or herself to quite a few officials.

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There's so much truth here. There are soldiers and marines fighting land wars in Asia that have to go on life risking missions to retrieve lost tech that's ITAR or worth more than some monetary amount I think $15 or $20K or spend months filling out paperwork explaining the loss. But CRAs get a free ride.

> They made the conscious decision to monetize personal data belonging to more than a hundred million people. That means they should take every measure available

I disagree. I think it means they owe a hundred million people (a) an offer to opt-in to their service and (b) a share of their profits for doing so.

Yeah, I agree with that. Basically we want to use a and b as incentives for them to take every measure available not to fail like this ever again. And as incentives for everyone else in the business.

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