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Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’ (www.404media.co)
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Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’::A stalker haphazardly posing as a cop demanded sensitive data from Verizon. Verizon complied, and the stalker drove to an address armed with a knife. 404 Media spoke to the victim.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 10 months ago (8 children)

In the interview with 404 Media, Poppy pointed out that Verizon is a multi-billion dollar company and yet still made this mistake. “They need to get their shit together,” she said.

they dont need to get their shit together, they need to be found criminally liable and fined a percentage of their stock price. yep, i said that. fuck your stocks

this would only change if this hit verizon where it hurts.. and i mean hundreds of millions per fucking incident paid to the victim. then Verizon might be tempted to do something.

as it is, they are providing the bare minimum of any service required to achieve the next quarter stock 'value'. any fines are the cost of doing business, and who gets that fine money? not the victim.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stock... Price? You mean fine them some number of shares?

You can't fine the price, that's not how the stock market works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I mean you could fine them a percentage of the stock price. It is a dollar value. But that would only be a few dollars paid out.

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