FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen | Yep, cell carriers didn’t have to do this before

Igloojoe , 4 months ago

Next make it a law that companies must inform you when they sell your info.

wolo , 4 months ago

Every sale to every individual buyer requires separate handwritten notice, each individually attached to a copy of the privacy policy and the data sold, notarized and sent by certified mail in triplicate, with postage paid by the sender. Make it cost so much that the entire industry becomes obsolete.

Halosheep , 4 months ago

I hate this as much as you do, but this would kill the major 'free' internet services. You'd likely see almost everything go to a pay to use service.

I'm not going to argue whether that's actually a good result or not, but I would be sad to lose 'free' YouTube.

tias , 4 months ago

What poorly thought out language. First they call FCC "tough", then they go on to imply that it's surprising that this wasn't a requirement before. IMO "tough" would be something that exceeds ordinary expectations.

TimLovesTech , 4 months ago

Agreed. Cloudflare level of transparency should really be the minimum in cases of security breaches for all companies with any user/customer information. And when found to be purposefully hiding that information you should have your right to do business at least suspended in the US.

A policy as such would -

1. Incentives disclosure (or your essentially DOA in US)
2. Increase the IT budget and force more security over profit (because again the alternative is no profit otherwise - or at least many detailed explanations on how the company still isn't doing anything)

EDIT - spelling/autocorrect battle

jaybone , 4 months ago

They should do this. Still they’ll pass that cost on to the customer.