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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 05:29 PM EST |
>We're bogging it down with technical details which - in my humble opinion -
don't affect the fact that a privacy breach has been comitted.
In other words, don't legalize the death penalty for trespass (because
"there are many very valuable things you couldn't steal unless you
trespassed first"). Instead, make draconian laws for grand theft, and leave
trespassing for the traffic cops and local magistrates?
I'd say throw the book at _anyone_ who, by _any_ means took and
"abused" "confidential" information. "By any
means" would include breaking into a filing cabinet or falsely claiming to
be a different person on the phone, just as much as cracking a user password.
(And by "throw the book" I'd be happy to include mandatory
bungee-jumping off Hoover Dam by their entrails.)
"confidential" is well enough defined by any number of corporate
policies, and shouldn't be hard to define legally. It would specifically exclude
any public information
By "abuse" you'd include elements like personal profit, malicious
publication, or intent to stalk.
Because so much of this would be across state lines, it would almost not make
sense not to have it be federal law.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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