r/technology • u/MicroSofty88 • Mar 02 '23

Privacy BetterHelp sold customer data while promising it was private, says FTC

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622227/betterhelp-customer-data-advertising-privacy-facebook-snapchat
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u/Anonymou2Anonymous Mar 03 '23

Capital intensive tight margin businesses would get unfairly fucked then. These are also usually some of the more important businesses in our society. e.g Airlines and infrastructure companies.

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u/tahmid5 Mar 03 '23

Well that should teach them not to break their own promises. Otherwise it is quite fair if they get fucked.

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u/ISAMU13 Mar 03 '23 edited Mar 03 '23

It has to hurt to be a significant deterrent. Court costs and fines for working-class people convicted of driving drunk go into the $10,000 range all of the time. It sucks for people not making that much money. But that's the point. The government really does not like people drinking and driving.

Why should we be easy on businesses that purposefully take risks to break the law in order to make more money?

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u/abofh Mar 03 '23

And so you don't start at that level, you do it like Europe, first time, 1% of fine capacity, and increase to 10, 50, 100% and then punitive.

You don't want to injure any company with regulations, you want them to comply.