Fabian Pierce

Should companies be required to pay customers when they misuse location data?

Corporate fines are priced in; customer payments are not. When a data broker gets caught selling location histories, the penalty goes to the government and the company treats it as the cost of a profitable quarter. The users whose clinic visits were sold get a press release. A mandatory payment flips the incentive: every record collected becomes a potential liability owed to a real person, which makes the CFO ask whether hoarding location data is worth it. The [FTC's Outlogic order](https://thehackernews.com/2024/01/ftc-bans-outlogic-x-mode-from-selling.html) banned sales and ordered deletion, but deletion after the sale is closing the barn door. Payment prices the harm at the point of collection, before the harm happens. Companies respond to liabilities on the balance sheet faster than to lectures in consent decrees. If we want less location harvesting, make each harvested record expensive.

voter suppression becomes impossible if the state is legally required to get everyone to the polls. thats the whole game

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The 1974 experiment is the part everyone forgets. We tried year-round daylight time, parents hated the dark school mornings, and it lasted one winter. Whoever picks the replacement time should have to explain why this time is different.

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